no service in Belize

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geo
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no service in Belize

Post by geo »

My dellvoice works fine in Canada and the US, I purchased time to use in Belize where I am now but it will not work, I have a good wifi connection and all other things work except skype which has been blocked for the last year by the state owned the internet supplier, Belize is listed as a world city, please help so I can call canada.
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Re: no service in Belize

Post by FONGO_steve »

If Skype is blocked then my guess is that all VoIP applications are blocked in the country.
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Re: no service in Belize

Post by dibsmft »

Looks like this has been a long standing problem:
http://bfic.wordpress.com/opinions/
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Re: no service in Belize

Post by CSCO »

One of solution I'd use in this case is get a cheap vpn service and use it to bypass this restriction. Unless you are in certain countries most PPTP service will be good enough to do this.