TeleBermuda International, one of several companies vying to offer long-distance telephone services in Bermuda, has won the blessing of the Telecommunications Commission.

The company is seeking Government's permission to provide the service through the installation of a new undersea telecommunications cable.

All such applications have been referred to the Commission for study.

Government hopes to announce final decisions on licensing early in the new year, the Hon. Dr. Grant Gibbons, Minister of Management and Technology wrote in a statement included with the report.

TeleBermuda plans to spend $80 million on a 900-kilometre submarine telecommunications cable spur connected to the CANUS cable, being proposed for construction in 1995, linking Canada and the US.

The Commission also suggested Cable and Wireless be afforded the opportunity to compete in Bermuda on the domestic front.

Cable and Wireless currently holds a legislated monopoly on international telecommunications services while Telco has a monopoly at the domestic level.

Friday's 29-page report contains 24 recommendations.

Others recommended for approval by the Commission are North Atlantic Telecommunications, Bermuda Digital Communications Ltd., Telecommunications (Bermuda & West Indies) Ltd., and the Bermuda Telephone Company Ltd. (Telco).

Global Access (Bermuda), Island Bell, Bermuda International Telecommunications, and Bermuda Global Access Ltd. were not recommended for approval they are considered "callback'' services and, according to the commission, fail to add to the infrastructure of Bermuda.

(See Business, Page 17 for more.)