BTL's Chairman and CEO held a rare press conference today to reject the BNTU's claim that DIGI is a tax dodger.
IT also gave us the opportunity to talk about a long rumoured acquisition by BTL. For years now, there's been a proposal before the board to acquire Belize's largest cable provider, CTI - which is Central Television and Internet.
The Chairman says that it makes sense for BTL because it optimises their infrastructure true and will allow them to make a more complete offering to customers - and they are studying the possibility of an acquisition:
Reporter
"If you could discuss whether BTL plans to purchase or acquire CTI Cable and Internet, that's been in discussion for a couple of years. Is that proposed sale moving closer to completion?"
Mark Lizzaraga, Chairman, BTL
"Since 2016 BTL had acquire this huge capacity, the fiber to the homes. We've invested a lot of money in that and we don't have anything really of substance to fill it, we have humongous capacity and we are using this much of that capacity. The previous board had commissioned several studies in a very fragmented manner and made several decisions. At one time, it would do this and then they didn't do it - subsequent to that, it made another study, they do something - they never did it. The position of the new board is that it's going to do its own homework, its own study and we are in the process of procuring that study so that we can look at the current facts."
