Monday, October 19, 2009

BELIZE INTERNET AVAILABILITY IS THE PITS!

BELIZE CULTURE LISTSERVE COMMENTARY ON LOUSY INTERNET AVAILABILITY IN BELIZE!

Perhaps it is economies of scale and cost of bandwidth? But here we can only supposedly get maximum 128K, not those 1 meg bandwidth you talk about there in Finland, as a public right. That from SMART telecommunications, Ashcrofts newest venture here. Though I haven't got it yet, they keep promising me wireless, but it is running 5 weeks since I ordered from them. You cannot get anything from BTL and nobody else has anything affordable. I have been waiting 16 years for internet here. So far, I cannot get it at all. I did ask SMART for something higher, but they said 128K is all they have. Beggars cannot be choosers in Belize. 100 meg bandwidth in Belize is real dreamland.

--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Lan Sluder wrote:


From: Lan Sluder
Subject: Bz-Culture: Internet access as a legal right?
To: "Belize Culture" , "Belize Culture"
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 11:55 AM


This message sent to the Bz-Culture Mailing List from Lan Sluder :
Finland is set to become the first country in the world to have
broadband internet access as a legal right. By 2010, the 5 million
people in the country will have access to at least 1 meg broadband
connection (though no one is required to have it). By 2015, everyone
is supposed to have access to 100 meg connections.

--Lan Sluder

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