TBI’s legal case vs Digicel adjourned
TBI’s legal action over Digicel offering long distance has been adjourned pending consideration by the Telecommunications Commission.TBI launched judicial review proceedings against the Business Development and Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert and the Registrar of Companies after Digicel relaunched the controversial long distance service last month.The case was adjourned on Wednesday until January 31 to see what now occurs in relation to a Commission inquiry and decision, expected in early February.In a statement after Digicel relaunched long distance, Government had said: “Following Digicel/Transact’s announcement that, effective immediately, it has resumed offering, selling, and marketing its International Long Distance (ILD) via Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service, the Government would like to state that it intends to refer the matter of whether this service is in compliance with the terms of the licences provided to Telecommunication (Bermuda and West Indies) Ltd (TBWL) and Transact Ltd to the Telecommunications Commission, pursuant to Section 16 of the Telecommunications Act 1986.”The Commission could not take up the matter until it was formally gazetted. A January 6 notice in the Official Gazette named the Commission’s chairman as Ronald Simmons, and members as Angela Berry, Tulani Bulford, Ricardo Campbell, John Cunningham, Dion E Smith, Ronald Stan, D Kent Stewart, and John Johnson.