Despite claims yesterday that employees of The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) had intentionally disrupted phone services in the Northern Bahamas in opposition to the government’s intent to sell 51 percent of the company’s shares to Cable and Wireless, union representatives said that this was not the case.
By mid-morning yesterday, BTC customers were unable to make any international calls or other long distance calls by land or mobile phone, negatively impacting the operation of some businesses.
Only local land to land calls could be made and at times there was some difficulty accessing that service.
A union representative, who did not wish to be named, told The Freeport News that a real technical issue existed and employees were working feverishly to fix the problem that also affected Abaco and Bimini.
The problem, they believed, had to do with a fiberoptic cable that was damaged.
