MAP > Internet Providers in Belize

The Statistics and Analyses One of the tiniest countries in Central America, Belize in very many aspects has very closer affinities with the English speaking countries of Caribbean than with the immediate neighbors. Belize’s fixed-line teledensity, as well as the mobile penetration, has remained lower when compared with the average for this region, the legacy of the insufficient market competition as well as the underinvestment in the telecoms services, which have been exacerbated by the lax managerial standards within incumbent telco Digi.

But, the Digi has of late adopted the reforming strategy, and this has been partly expressed by the rebranding in the year 2018 on August as it does aim to be able to transform itself at the various levels into the effective competitor operator that is commercially minded and also focused on the cheaper pricing as well as the customer retention. This company has been able to undertake very significant investment in terms of the infrastructure, the opening of the LTE-A service at the end of the 2016 and in the mid-2017 hence completing the submarine cable to the Ambergris Caye, hence enabling it to be able to launch the FttP service in the San Pedro.

The Loans have secured since the year 2017 that have been used to be able to complete the program to migrate the infrastructure from the legacy copper to the fiber by the mid-2017. Belizean telecom market has been liberalized in the year 2003, yet the Digi has continued to hold the monopoly when it comes to the fixed-line service, and it has remained to be the dominant provider of the mobile as well as broadband services.

In the year 2009, state renationalized Digi after the change of the government brought to light the questionable Accommodation Agreement that is between previous administration as well as the company. Despite the fact that the rationale for nationalization is to improve conditions for the consumers, the Digi’s prices have stabilized at a very high rate.

The government has been able to undertake the various measures to enhance the competition, and most notably by the obliging Digi in mid-2013 to open the networks to the VoIP services. In the mid-2015, the government agreed with regards to the outstanding 22.5 million dollars loan that was signed off in the year 2007 by the former Digimanagement team that the company went ahead and considered it unlawful.