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BTL. They have been out 6 times over the last month. They have finally admitted the cable feed is only good for distances 3 miles or less from the office and the main feed for speeds over 1 meg. Not sure I buy the explanation since it used to work and we got 2 meg speed. At this point there is not much left to do other than decrease our speed and dsl bill to 1 meg service. I think the problems started when they doubled everyone's speed. It is what it is, very expensive and not reliable. Guess it is certainly better than it used to be. Infrastructure on the island is always a problem.

Belize's Broadband still the most expensive in Caribbean

In May of this year, 7News told you about that survey of the Caribbean which said that Belize's internet is among the slowest and most expensive in the region. Well, there is a new survey out, which was released last week. This new survey says that Belize's Broadband access, which puts a 2 meg connection as the standard, is still the most expensive.

Belize is among the 134 countries which has a national policy to increase availability of internet to its citizens. But Belize is called out as the country at the bottom of the list when trying to make broadband access more affordable. The organization, Broadband Commission for Digital Development, sets the standard of affordability as 5% of the average person's monthly income. The Cayman Islands passed with flying colors costing the average person of around 2% of that income. Of the countries who are still outside that affordability standard, Saint Vincent's is just above Belize with just over 12% of the average person's income. Belize is last once again, doubling St. Vincent with a total of over 30% of the average person's monthly income. Again, the standard set is a connection line of 2 megabits per second.

Belize is doing much better when compared to other countries in terms of getting households connected to the internet. It also shows that internet penetration is also improving in Belize, when compared to the rest of the Caribbean.

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