The launch of Batelnet’s “One Line” high speed DSL Internet service has changed the Bahamian Internet marketplace by finally providing the local cable company some worthy competition.
Cable Bahamas has seen it’s share of the market increase over the past several years at the expense of the government operated phone company, who did not offer competitive high speed services.
Now, the situation had been reversed with Cable Bahamas losing market share with the introduction of the new lower cost and competitively equal “One Line” service.
Cable Bahamas, long regarded by many Bahamians as pirates, lent credence to that image when they lowered their prices by almost 50% to head off the new competition.
“If they could operate and make a profit charging half what they used to, why didn’t they voluntarily lower the prices before now?” Asks one irate Internet customer.
“That’s how they made such an outrageous profit last year, at the expense of hard working Bahamians,” he added.
Another Cable Bahamas Internet customer told of frequent outages and numerous connection problems with their cable Internet service as their reason for switching from cable to DSL.
