The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has launched a HSPA+ upgrade on its network.

Geoff Houston, the Chief Executive of BTC, said: “Using 4G our customers can communicate, engage socially, handle business and manage many other aspects of life using mobile handsets. For both Bahamians, and the tourists on which this economy depends, this is another significant step forward in the modernisation of the telecommunications infrastructure for these islands.”

UK based Cable & Wireless Communications purchased a majority shareholding in BTC earlier this year from the Government of The Bahamas. C&W is currently introducing HSPA+ data services in a number of its Caribbean businesses.