Telecom Industry

Deadline looms for cell phone registration

If you own a cellular phone and still have not gone in to register it with your service provider, well you can breathe, at least for another month. The deadline, initially set for tomorrow, Thursday, has been extended at least for another month. This is because quite a significant number of cell phone owners have [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on April 11, 2012 10:07 pm

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Belize City man wins big SMART raffle

SMART is celebrating its seventh anniversary of service to the Belizean people. And as part of the milestone the telephone company today held their big HOME IMPROVEMENT raffle. The venue for the big draw was SMART’s headquarters on the Northern Highway. The winner of the raffle will get a living room and kitchen makeover, which [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on March 29, 2012 7:37 pm

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BTL previews new telephone directory cover

Next to the Bible, the telephone directory is perhaps the most used book in many homes and offices around the country. And it’s that time of the year again, when the focus shifts to the BTL Directory. The book’s front page has always been a topic of some discussion and marvel and this year, considered [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on March 29, 2012 7:28 pm

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Deadline to register cell phones adjusted

Today the offices of Smart across the country were packed with its customers to register their cellular phones. Smart’s Public Relations Officer, Ian Courtenay told us in an interview earlier today that they were given March 15th as their deadline to register their customers. And so the word got out and the Smart offices were [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on March 15, 2012 11:59 pm

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SMART executive explains intermittent outages

Cell phones have become more than just bling and for many it is a crucial piece of equipment. For Speednet’s SMART telephone company, there have been some intermittent service lately and today Love News sat down with Chief Marketing officer, Anthony Mahler to find out how the company is dealing with the migration to the [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on December 21, 2011 9:45 pm

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BTL introduces Blackberry Service

For the past few weeks, Belize Telemedia had been promoting the launch of a new service. It’s called Blackberry. And it is coming to a Digicel handset near you soon. The soft launch was held on Thursday night in Belize City. And Love TV’s Natalie Novelo and cameraman Brian Castillo had front row seat for [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on November 11, 2011 10:57 pm

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BTL and SMART agree on interconnection

The all-out telephone war between Speednet, the owners of Smart, and BTL over the years has grown so intense that the conflict over matters relating to interconnection has landed them both before the courts. Smart’s position is that it wants to introduce its new 3G Network to improve its services. BTL’s has been that it [...]

Published by Patrick Jones on September 2, 2011 3:28 pm