Bahamas - Telephone Services

Both tourists and business travellers alike will find that telecommunications services on The Islands Of The Bahamas are current with service in the U.S. and Canada. BaTelCo (Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation) serves The Abaco Islands with a 100% digital switching system that lets you call over 100 countries. During your stay, access to fax machines and switchboards is available at most hotels -- keeping you connected with anyone in the world. 

BaTelCo also provides a variety of other services beyond phone service -- faxing, telex, cellular, private line services, satellite and radio leasing and an improved VHF-FM radio telephone service that allows you to contact ships at sea. And you can save money on your long distance calls by purchasing a phone card with great rates at all BaTelCo locations -- which can be found in Treasure Cay, Fox Town, Sandy Point, Hope Town, Avana Bay, Man-O-War Cay and on Moore’s Island. 

Those of you who don’t leave the house without your cell phone will find that it’s easy to keep in touch while visiting The Islands Of The Bahamas. BaTelCo has roaming agreements with many companies from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Roaming rates are $3.00 per day and 99¢ per minute, and will be billed through your home carrier. In order for you, as a non-BaTelCo subscriber, to receive calls while in The Islands Of The Bahamas, the caller must dial 1-242-359-7626, wait for the second tone and then dial your number. 

Because of Internet expansion throughout the world, BaTelCo introduced a top-rate, state-of-the-art Internet product to The Islands Of The Bahamas -- BaTelNet. As the premier Internet provider in The Islands Of The Bahamas today, BaTelCo offers several features to its customers, such as 24-hour technical support, local-access dialing, 28.8k modems, low customer/modem ratio and flexible pricing. In addition, BaTelCo established a wireless service to provide products and services covering every facility available internationally.