BTL is insatiable, no reason to provide their own voip service if they can block Vonage, Skyppe. PUC addresses this after March elections, Ashcroft will sue, GOB will capitulate. Let the games begin.

In any country I have lived in except Belize their behaviour would be criminal - directors and officers would be fined or go to jail.

If they put 1/10 of the effort they use on negative activities into improving their lamentable service I'd feel a lot easier paying their extortionate charges.

wow. this certainly has created chaos today and many upset people. It is affecting many businesses, resorts, etc who actually create a lot of jobs and spend $ on the island. Would there every be a way to pay BTL to unblock individual ports for a large fee?

SIN "Would DirecWay offer a solution for voip, like Vonage (bypassing BTL)?" no it would not. The delay from the satellite is too great. And the "uplink" bandwidth on a standard Direcway or Starband connection is too narrow to allow VOIP to function correctly.

How about two tin cans and a long long string?

chris, do you have connection to island internet?

Katie! you always seem to have so much info and give us lots of good info all the time. where did you hear this, from BTL or from someone? The only reason I ask is I heard contradicting info from someone that they are having trouble with the lines and that is the issue. A friend got and made calls this morning.

Hola Crazy K, yes, I used to own Island Internet. The new owner is much better looking than me although I am much sexier in my own bald-headed, hairy-bodied, short-of-stature sort of way.

and he's hired cuter staff

I do believe the lovely Maria, hired by me, is still happily working there.