Earlier we told you about the legal showdown in the Caribbean Court of Justice tomorrow. While that fight ensues, a legal dispute with BTL's competitor, SMART!, came to a temporary resolution yesterday.
As we told you last month, SMART's parent company, Speednet, filed an injunction against BTL to stop them from terminating a contract in which SMART contracts BTL's infrastructure to provide voice and data to SMART's customer base of almost 7,000 customers in the Toledo District.
So, if BTL discontinued, it would have cut off all of those SMART cell phone users from getting service.
BTL's attorney gave an undertaking to the court that the company would not terminate the service pending the outcome of yesterday's hearing.
At that hearing, Speednet withdrew its claim against BTL and the Public Utilities Commission. In exchange, BTL has agreed to extend their provision of lines to SMART until February 28. That came in the form of a consent order which both sides agree to.
At this time, there is no explanation as to what will happen to the SMART customers after the ending of Feburary, and how the telecommunications company will accommodate them. We tried to get comment from both SMART and BTL today, but they both declined our requests.
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