delivering on its pledge to drive down the cost of long-distance calling from Bermuda. As of October 1 TBI will introduce a new volume-discount calling programme called "Best Rates''; the more you call and the more you talk, the more savings you make -- up to 22 per cent.

By enrolling in Best Rates high-volume customers can call the US for .49 cents a minute, the UK for 81 cents, Canada for 61 cents. Uniquely, customers who make just one call a month can also benefit from reduced calling costs.

There's no monthly fee for enrolling or number to call.

"Simple to use at cost effective rates is the basis of the programmes delivered by TeleBermuda,'' TBI general manager James Fitzgerald said. He noted overseas calling costs dropped by as much as 57 percent since TBI entered the market in April 1997 -- it used to be $1.15 to the US and $1.50 to the UK.

*** GLOBAL EYES NYC BUC Global eyes NYC Bermuda-based high-speed telecoms company Global Crossing plans to enter the metropolitan New York market after acquiring fibre-optic network capacity from Telergy Inc. Under the deal Global Crossing will acquire from Telergy 96 strands of fibre (this measures one-inch in diameter!) in the NY area with enough capacity to handle 32,000 simultaneous voice/data transmissions.

*** SOUSA'S PROMOTES APP Sousa's promotes Sousa's Landscape Management Co. Ltd. has announced a number of promotions and additions to its team. Lou Pantry was promoted to maintenance coordinator, having spent the last year as Sousa's team leader/site manager at Elbow Beach Hotel. His new responsibilities will still keep him at the helm of Elbow Beach Hotel as well as Coral Beach Hotel and other high-end residential and commercial properties island-wide.

Sousa's has hired horticulturist Julian Peach from New Zealand, whose last post was at Buckingham Palace in Britain. He also has expertise in pesticide handling and his position at Sousa's will be chemical applicator/assistant team leader. Also hired was Brian Robinson from Chicago as team leader/designer.

Sousa's also welcomes Bermudian Morocco Burch as company mechanic and in the next few months he will be sent abroad for STIHL technical writing seminars in Florida.

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