By Scott Neil and Alex Wright – Royal Gazette Bermuda’s duopoly of internet service providers is a step closer to being challenged by an opening up of the market from a consortium of three of the Island’s largest telecommunications companies. The trio of KeyTech, North Rock Communications and Transact has formed a consortium to bid [...]

By Scott Neil of the Royal Gazette Three of Bermuda’s largest telecommunications firms, KeyTech, North Rock Communications, and Transact, have today jointly submitted an application for a New International Class A Telecommunications Licence. The licence will allow the consortium to build and operate an International telecommunications submarine cable facility between Bermuda and the USA, and [...]

By Scott Neil For an Island as reliant on internet connectivity as Bermuda the advent of deliberate cyberspace attacks of a magnitude that can virtually cripple a country — as experienced by Estonia last month — is worrying. Whether such an attack could be mounted against Bermuda, either as a terrorist action or deliberate sabotage [...]

By Scott Neil – Royal Gazette A consortium of three Bermuda communication companies has entered a bid to win the right to install a new undersea telecoms cable linking the Island with the US. A key member of the consortium said that, should it be given the right to go into direct competition with the [...]

Bermuda Sun: The island’s telecoms industry may not be perfect – but it’s getting better all the time. Bermuda moved up five positions to 15th overall in the ‘Economist’ magazine’s e-readiness ranking, according to a government press statement. This year’s ranking is only the second year Bermuda has been included in the ranking, and it’s [...]