Govt. telecom system uses new technology

Representatives of L.G. Electronics, the giant Korean Corporation that is contracted to provide government with its own high speed communication network, are in town this week to provide details of the system. News 5’s Stewart Krohn met with them this morning and was told that the wide band C.D.M.A. technology, originally developed for military use, is ideal for Belize’s terrain and low population density. The way the system will work is that Belize City, Belmopan and each town will have its own tower and wireless transceiver that will interact with local terminals at schools and government offices. Each town and city will then be connected via fibre optic lines that will be integrated with the neutral wire of B.E.L.’s nation-wide high voltage electricity grid. The international connection will join the network in Belize City using a new underwater fibre optic line that links much of the Caribbean to North and South America. L.G.’s Kyeong Woo Lee explained the system’s advantages.

Kyeong Woo Lee, L.G. Electronics

“It’s very easy to deploy and very low initial investments. So it can make possible high speed Internet connections, which is three hundred and eighty-four KBPS, the maximum speed of the, data speed. So this one can communicate broad band data communication to government, organisations, and to schools and all over the Belizean territories.”