Establishment:
The Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) was established in the year 2000 with the enactment of the Bhutan Telecommunications Act. The office was then called as Bhutan Telecommunications Authority (BTA). It was later renamed as Bhutan Communications Authority (BCA) in the year 2003 with the establishment of new ministry for Information and Communications (MoIC). In the year 2005 it got it's present name, extending its mandates to regulate ICT and Media services in the country. With the enactment of the Bhutan Information Communications and Media Act 2006, BICMA is formally de-linked from its parent Ministry, MoIC to function as an independent, autonomous body from 1st January 2007.
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