Article: Bahamas: BTC connects Haitian data operators over submarine link; cellcos to follow.

Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has confirmed signing its first contract with a data service provider in Haiti, and expects at least four more wholesale agreements to come by the year's end, the Nassau Guardian reports.

BTC invested USD6 million in a project to extend a submarine fibre-optic cable to Haiti in 2006, the only direct link of its kind with a landing station in the impoverished country. We have a partnership arrangement with Haitian PSTN operator Telecommunications d Haiti (Teleco), BTC spokesperson Marlon Johnson told the Bahamian newspaper, adding, The cable is in operation... fully ...

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