Cellular One reconnects customers
Cellular One (Bermuda Digital Communications Ltd.) reconnected its customers to its wireless broadband data access on Monday after the Supreme Court stayed all proceedings taken under a search warrant that was executed on the company last Friday.
Department of Telecommunications officials executed the search warrant and compelled the company to disconnect the service known as The Bull on the basis that the service was in breach of Cellular One?s Class B licence, which designates it as a provider of cell phone services and data services.
For more than a month, Class C licence holders ? ISPs ? have expressed concern that the company was infringing on the business set out in their licences by offering customers a way to access the Internet.
The dispute landed in court on Monday when the Supreme Court gave Cellular One leave to issue proceedings for Judicial Review against the Minister of Telecommunications to quash the search warrant executed on Friday, 20 May 2005. The court has also ordered that all proceedings taken under the search warrant be stayed.
Cellular One CEO Kurt Eve said in the Press release on Monday that Cellular One has also made an application to the Telecommunications Commission, pursuant to section 13(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1986, for a review of its licence.
He said: ?Cellular One is confident that the Commission will find that the wireless broadband data access which it provides is authorised under terms of Cellular One?s licence.?