PRESS RELEASE COVID-19 WORLD PANDEMIC The TCI Telecommunications Commission (the Commission) is committed to providing services to all customers and vendors during the national state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that is affecting the world.

The Telecommunications Commission is conducting a consultation into the use of the unlicensed frequency bands in the 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz as a delivery mechanism to provide public telecommunications services, especially those that are offered commercially-for-profit over an unlicensed architecture, and to assess whether such commercial applications should be permitted within the Turks & Caicos Islands. As such, Industry stakeholders and the wider public are invited to participate and provide comments to the consultation questions that are defined within this consultation document.

In accordance with section 5 of Schedule 2 of the Telecommunications Ordinance 2018, The Annual Report for 2018/19 and Three-Year Strategy for 2019/20 to 2021/22 is now available. The Report also includes a review of our activities and accomplishments for 2014/15 to 2017/18, which covers the four-year period since the Telecommunications Commission’s previous Annual Report was issued. The audited financial statements for the fiscal year 2017/18 are also included in this report, and the audited financial statements for the fiscal year 2018/19 will follow later this year.