BEL Agreement Legalizes VOIP Blockage?
Belize News Post has recently come across some comments in a forum that suggest the BEL, Belize Telemedia Limited, made a later term agreement with the last Government of Belize under Musa. But is it true?
Belize News Post has been unable to independently verify these comments. With Belize’s track record of making closed doors deals with big companies and big money at stake it would hardly be surprising to find this to be true. Does anyone know of any such deal made the GOB under Musa making the blocking of VOIP legal for 15 years?
We also have come across several videos from 2006 covering a PUC conference on this issue. For a historical perspective on this issue watch these videos.
In related news the “Unblock Skype in Belize” Facebook Group has grown to over 600 members. We urge you to support this cause by joining the group.
You may also be interested in visiting the Public Utilities Commission Website or emailing them at info@puc.bz
Public Utilities Commission
41 Gabourel Lane,
P.O. Box 300,
Belize City,
Belize
Tel: +501-223-4938
Fax: +501-223-6818
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Voice over Internet Protocol has been around since many years. But due to lack of sufficient and affordable bandwidth it was not possible to carry carrier grade voice over Internet Protocol. But since the arrival of low cost internet bandwidth and new speech codecs such as G.729, G.723 which utilizes very low payload to carry carrier class voice it has recently been possible to leverage the true benefits of VoIP. G.723 codec utilizes only 6 Kbps (Kilo Bytes/sec) which is capable of maintaining a constant stream of data between peers and deliver carrier grade voice quality. Lets put this way if you have 8 Mbps internet connection, by using G.723 codec you can run upto 100 telephone lines with crystal clear and carrier grade voice quality. I am also a user of VoIP and have setup a small PBX at home. Since I have discovered VoIP I have never used traditional PSTN service.
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