WESTERN BUREAU — General manager of Cornwall Communication Limited (CCL), Roxroy Sinclair said he was confident that his company would soon resume the provision of cable television service to several communities in St James that were shutdown recently.

Last month, the Montego Bay-based cable company discontinued its illegal service to a number of communities in western Jamaica after the Broadcasting Commission — the agency with regulatory powers over cable operations — threatened to suspend its licence.

Among the communities affected are Coral Gardens, Ironshore, Flankers, Salt Spring, Cornwall Courts, Greenpond and Pitfour Pen.

According to Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission, Cordel Green, Cornwall Communications Limited is only licensed to serve communities within a four-mile radius of downtown Montego Bay and the Falmouth zone in Trelawny, but has been operating outside of the prescribed area.

But earlier this week, Sinclair told the Observer that his company recently applied to the Broadcasting Commission for a licence to operate in the communities that are now without his service.

“We have applied to the Broadcasting Commission, and we are now waiting on a reply from them. We have given them everything that they have asked for, and we believe that the application will be approved,” Sinclair added.

He noted that his company has been operating in areas such as Coral Gardens and Ironshore for the past seven years and has on two occasions applied for a licence to do so, but the applications were turned down.

According to him, CCL has publicly apologised to the affected customers for breaching the Broadcasting Commission’s regulations, and has since ‘worked out’ compensation packages with them.

He declined to say what the packages involved, but maintained that the affected subscribers are ‘very satisfied’ with it.