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BTC Opens New Corporate Enterprise
By Bahamas Telecommunications Company
May 1, 2017 - 8:00:38 AM

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BTC Ceo Leon Williams addresses members of the GB Community who turned out for the official opening and ribbon cutting ceremonies for BTC's Corporate Enterprise location on the Mall Drive on April 28th. (Photo: Alfred Anderson)

Freeport, Bahamas – BTC further cemented its reputation as a pillar of the Grand Bahama Community on Friday April 28 as the company officially opened the doors to its Brand New Corporate Headquarters on the Mall Drive in Freeport. The opening of the new facilities marks the beginning of a brand-new style of customer interaction for residents on Grand Bahama.

“We’ve introduced 360 degrees of managing customer accounts. The classic management style typically doesn’t have the follow through on the sale that we now want to introduce” explained Northern VP Eldri Ferguson Mackey. “We’ve equipped every sales team member with sales support staff and what they do is they carry out that support, they answer customer queries and manage the customer’s accounts.”

For more than 20 years Grand Bahama has played a pivotal role in the provision of telecoms services for residents on Grand Bahama Island and in the northern Bahamas. While BTC has become synonymous with its myriad of community based locations, establishing a centralized corporate location was vital to the execution of the company’s long term plans for residents on Grand Bahama Island.

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During a tour of the new facility, Norther Bahamas VP Eldri Ferguson Mackey introduces members of the enterprise sales team. Thanks to a new 360 style of customer introduced at the new offices, each sales team member will also be supported by support staff to provide more complete management of customer accounts. (Photo: Alfred Anderson)

“The road to this opening has been long time coming explained CEO” Leon Williams. “It was a long and winding road but it was very important that BTC establish a location on the Mall in downtown Freeport. For us it must be about more than Nassau, that’s what separates BTC from our competitors. We are also very concerned about developing our people”.

This was particularly true for the company in the weeks and months following the passage of Hurricane Matthew. Despite sustaining upwards of 40 million dollars in damage to its infrastructure BTC was one of the only utilities in the country which successfully stayed online before, during, and after the storm. This was largely due to the company’s intricate emergency generation and relay system which redirected traffic in areas which were being severely battered by high winds and rains.

Since the passage of the storm, BTC has wholly and solely funded all recovery efforts in the Northern Bahamas and is currently some 98% complete. As a leading corporate citizen BTC has worked to do just, that offering improved product and services for its customers.

Equally important to the now fully Bahamianized management team at BTC is the company’s commitment to community development through responsible corporate citizenship.

“BTC history in being an excellent corporate citizen is far reaching” noted Northern VP Eldri-Ferguson Mackey” I like to say we don’t just fly in here, we live here. So the managers responsible for making the decisions live in the various communities which we try to have a positive impact.”
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Company Executives including Northern VP Eldri Ferguson Mackey and Ceo Leon Williams cut the ribbon at BTC's Corporate Enterprise location on the Mall Drive on April 28th. The opening marks more than 20 years of service to the GB Community and is vital to the long term plans for telecoms in the nation's second city. (Photo: Alfred Anderson)





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