Aliv is a Bahamian telecommunications brand operated by NewCo15Limited which is 48.25% owned by Cable Bahamas and 51.75% by the Bahamian public. Their chief executive is Damian Blackburn. It is the second mobile telecommunications company licensed in The Bahamas. Since there was only one mobile carrier in the Bahamas previously,

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was not introduced until April 2017.

BTC Bahamas BTC is the primary telecommunications provider for the Bahamas, headquartered in Nassau, New Providence. It is partly government owned and offers telephone, internet and wireless services. BTC is an initialism for the Bahamas Telecommunications ...

and Aliv have a roaming agreement which allows customers of either telecommunications provider to use their phone when out of range of the primary providers cellular tower, but within range of the roaming provider's tower. Roaming may or may not incur charges for the cellular subscriber. In the case of BTC and Aliv, customers do not incur roaming charges though the agreements did not appear to not have been completely finalized as of 2019. Aliv has been a fast growing alternative to BTC Bahamas, initially providing service in Nassau /

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and then expanding to what are known as "The Family Islands" or

Out Islands The Out Islands are the islands that make up the Bahamas with the exception of New Providence Island, where the capital and largest city, Nassau, is located and Grand Bahama Island, where Freeport is located.David Hamilton-Jones, "Problems of In ...

in the remainder of the Bahamian

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. It has been regarded by some as a more reliable telecommunications provider than BTC Bahamas, especially during Hurricane Dorian.

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partnered with Aliv in 2017. There has been some controversy over Aliv's use of BTC Bahamas controlling shareholder,

Liberty Global Liberty Global plc is a British-Dutch-American multinational telecommunications company with headquarters in London, Amsterdam and Denver. Its respective legal names are Liberty Global Plc, Liberty Global B.V. and Liberty Global, Inc., with t ...

, as names of some of Aliv's service plans.

Radio frequency summary

References

External links

Official website
{{bahamas-stub Telecommunications companies of the Bahamas Mobile phone companies of the Caribbean