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The Bahamas Telecommunications Company is touting a new high-security, feature-rich email service called “My Connect,” powered by the ubiquitous Google, and launched in early October and aimed at small and home office owners.

BTC claimed in a press release that with the launch, ‘My Connect’ would become the first service in The Bahamas to offer Google’s next-generation email service.

"The Google platform brings world-wide support and leverage to The Bahamas on a single server better known as "the cloud" and allows BTC customers to join hundreds of millions of advanced users as part of the world’s largest online community," the BTC release said.

Marlon Johnson, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, said, "Google products and technology are a powerful statement about the importance of reliable features that enable our customers to communicate anywhere and experience more than just email."

"This means existing and new customers will experience an improved interface that provides multiple email benefits from within the Google Apps system," he added.

"For instance, BTC has taken a quantum leap to secure email data against identity theft and will make the entire email experience safer from support through Google’s server authentication, whereas the competition is currently offering a basic interface, with much simpler security features bundled on the web through an outside third party."

The Google platform uses powerful technology to effectively scan and block viruses, filter spam, and alerts users when they receive so-called "phishing" messages.

Small Office Customers

According to BTC, ‘My Connect’ is the best value for small office and home office customers who rely on continued access to high bandwiths for transmitting email data and to sustain the succession of images in a video presentation.

Support for ‘My Connect’ and integration with more applications make email powered by Google even better for getting things done for businesses, BTC said.

"From scheduling meetings to sharing files with business associates, every part of the process is easy. ‘My Connect’ is the most effective way for enterprise customers to confer or chat on cyber space to get things done in a group," the company insisted.

The release cited a number of the supposed technical advantages ‘My Connect’ is supposed to have over its competition, including real time access to documents saved on the Google server up to seven years, and easy retrieval of lost or destroyed files.

"Unlike the competition, which only has up to 100MG of email storage and lacks the Google apps multifunctional platform, ‘My Connect’ has built in 7 GB of storage space to hold more email information in a single connection network. The Google brand upgrade offers world-class name recognition at a premium," BTC said.

Customers can, BTC said, now get the benefits of email powered by Google with their existing batelnet.bs account service. ‘My Connect’ multiple features include, Gmail, word processing, spreadsheet, calendar, chat, spam filtering, voice, and language translator bots.

BTC is working closely with partners such as eSource Capital Technologies in the development and migration to the Google platform. As of September 15 2008, dual delivery plans have been underway to converge the Batelnet system with the Google Apps system. By doing this, all email accounts will automatically be migrated and securely stored in the Google Data Centers outside The Bahamas.

"BTC’s forward thinking to bring Google Apps to the Bahamian market, is driving the technological leadership in the region. But the most important aspect of the deal is the multiple benefits that the users in The Bahamas will experience," says Enrique Comacho, Managing Partner, eSource Capital Technologies.

Customers can now go online until November 30, 2008 to access their batelnet.bs account or can upgrade at no additional charge to the new ‘My Connect’ account