The Tribune

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) will launch both its Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) business enterprise solution and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in mid-2015.

The announcement was made at the recent Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) event, where chief executive Leon Williams addressed attendees.

“We never stop evolving as a company or in our technology. This year we have made momentous upgrades to the network; capital expenditure (capex) was $26 million for mobile, $1.6 million for MPLS, $1.35 million approved to-date for Broadband and $65 million for the Family Islands,” said Mr Williams.

“So $68 million total capex on the network, and to roll out significant services that benefit businesses, most notably MPLS, which provides high speed, client dedicated large bandwidth, and scalability to suit.”

BTC developed its MPLS business solution offering to answer the call from business owners for improved communication options, which incorporated better cost and time efficiencies, easy and flexible capacity, and better security, resilience and reliability.

MPLS converges voice, video and data across a common platform that delivers improved performance, while ensuring that even remote users on that business’s private network are able to access centralised applications and business tools.

Mr Williams recently said IPTV testing would take place initially in pre-selected test sites in some of the Family Islands, followed by a launch on New Providence in mid-2015, pitting it directly against Cable Bahamas.