Bermuda Taxi Radio Cabs, which still uses radios for dispatch, received a stern warning from the Transport Control Department demanding the livery company comply with global positioning legislation "without further delay".

TCD has conducted periodic spot checks since the compliance deadline passed on August 6, 2006, and over that period, Radio Cabs has allegedly defied the law, passed almost ten months ago.

"The Transport Control Department hopes that their resistance to obeying the laws of the land will now cease," said TCD Director Randy Brangman.

A statement from the Department of Communication and Information does not set a new compliance deadline or lay out any potential penalty.

Radio Cab is benefiting from a grace period far longer than their counterparts who spent money on new equipment in order to meet the original deadline in August.

"That's pathetic," said BTA Dispatching Head Michael Ray. "Everyone else has to comply."

Mr. Ray represents about 400 cab drivers using the new equipment.

"We had issues too, but we were able to accomplish the goals before us," he said.

Minister of Tourism and Transport, and now Premier Ewart Brown introduced the legislation amid opposition from drivers, but that resistance has substantially dropped with 99 percent of taxi owners in compliance according to TCD traffic officers.

The only significant holdout to the industry-wide change appears to be Radio Cabs.

A woman who answered the company's office phone told The Royal Gazette, "There's no one here right now for you to talk to."