Belize News Post is leading the fight to unblock Skype in Belize. We have created a Facebook group. We encourage all who want net neutrality to join this group. This is democracy in action!
We hope that this group will lead the fight to encourage change in Government policy. BTL’s blocking of skype is an injustice. Lets join together to create change. This group is less than a month old and already has 219 members.
Here are a couple of the comments from the group.
Michelle wrote
at 07:13 yesterday
It’s all ’bout money $$$$.
Bertha wrote
at 03:18 yesterday
Why have BTL been allowed to do that when we live in a free Democratic society to choose,Belize really needs to move into the 21st century with the rest of the world.I live in Europe and for my parents in Belize it would be fantastic to be able to see and talk to their grandchildren and vice versa.Will need to look into this with more detail,surely there are legal implications to this.
Demoi’s wrote
at 23:43 on 11 June 2009
Don’t u get it? BTL blocks these things to maintain their monopoly….it’s not about ppl coming in and taking advantage of Belize…it’s more like how to block out any competition…Ashcroft or not, anyone with a good business sense would have done the same, belizean or not…so in actuality we’re not being bullied by foreigners…we’re being victims of the profit incentive world.
Sloan (West Palm Beach, FL) wrote
at 17:09 on 11 June 2009
Well, my question to you all is who is doing the blocking?. Where can I get more info on this? Is BTL a foreigner?
Lisa (New York, NY) wrote
at 20:54 on 10 June 2009
We need to start fighting for our country and for ourselves, Stop letting these foreigners come in our country and take control. We can’t do that in there country.
Minelli (Houston, TX) wrote
at 19:03 on 10 June 2009
i AGREE WITH EVERYONE SKYPE IS THE SHIZZNITT…THATS OPRAH’S FAVORITE THING.
Axel (Belize) wrote
at 17:28 on 10 June 2009
Finally a group worth joining and getting behind……Sooo…other than click Join. Whats the next move? Are we just gonna sit behind our pc’s and bitch about it?
Karen (New York, NY) wrote
at 14:33 on 09 June 2009
Belize is such a young country….our government still has so much to learn…..and it’s so sad that these foreigners recognize our vulnerability and come into our country and take advantage of the situation….people like Michael Ashcroft and all these other so-called hot shots need to be STOPPED!……people start standing up for yourself and your country!
Charles wrote
at 10:23 on 09 June 2009
Thepower of the individual is CHOICE! The power of the mass is PASSIVE RESISTENCE!
Corol wrote
at 16:41 on 06 June 2009
BTL did this some years ago and, at the time, got clearence from the government to do so…this is no surprise. We never did find a way to circumvent their blocks…maybe now there are better techie ways to do so.
J-UNIT
June 15, 2009
You all know more than me. But a quick internet search comes up with this page. Does any of this stuff work?
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=140851
belizenewspost
June 15, 2009
J-UNIT Thanks for the comment. As Belize News Post has previously reported solutions to this problem using VPNs or Virtual Private Networks is not a fool proof method since BTL has reportedly started blocking VPNs too. Thanks for sharing!
J-UNIT
June 22, 2009
Unblock Skype in Belize now has 379 members as of 6/22/2009.
Janeen
February 12, 2010
Well maybe we get back some features since the company has new management
dum
September 6, 2010
pls unblock skype