BVI appoints the head of TRC

The previous blogposts have already discussed telecommunications, first of all, regarding BVI improvements in this area (telecom reform, lowering rates and choosing GSM network provider) and then regarding 809 area code scams. This one is about improvements.

Now the newly-formed agency that will regulate the liberalised telecommunications industry of the BVI has its head. On October 9, 2006, the BVI Executive Council appointed David Iverson to be the first Chief Executive Officer of the new Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) for the 3-year period. Iverson holds a master’s degree in telecommunications policy and a bachelor’s of arts in business administration, political science and history.

He has been working in the areas of telecommunications sector reform, utility project and institutional capacity building for 25 years. Iverson has worked on major assignments to design regulatory organisation and policy design in Indonesia, Ghana, Malawi, Albania, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,Togo, Nigeria and South Africa.

Iverson is now responsible for creating and then managing the TRC, associated with the Ministry of Communications and Works, determining the financial and staff resources required by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, establishing offices and developing of internal procedures of the TRC, developing and implementing the new telecommunications and radio regulatory regime.