type public industry telecommunications founded 1972 merged with cable and wireless belize in 1987 headquarters belize city belize key people nestor vasquez chairman of the board of directors products telephone internet revenue 26.1 million bzd 2006 net income 156.2 million usd 2006 number of employees about 500 website belizetelemedia.net belize telemedia limited btl formerly belize telecommunications limited is a telecommunications company in belize . established in 1972 as the telecommunications authority it rapidly became belize s leading telecommunication provider in the 1980s and 1990s . today it enjoys the most subscribers to telephone cellular internet and other services . in may 2007 it changed its name from belize telecommunications limited to belize telemedia limited . the wireless division of btl is called digicell . in august 2009 the company was nationalized by the government of belize who appropriated 94 % of its shares which were previously controlled by michael ashcroft . 1 2 external links edit belize telemedia limited official site digicell mobile service official site references edit http www.governmentofbelize.gov.bz download pm intro bill.pdf government passes law to takeover telemedia . 7 news belize . 24 august 2009 . retrieved 5 september 2013 . the reporter 29 september 2006 outrage at callous btl call for fonseca to resign the reporter 8 september 2006 btl s 5.8 m tax write off another can of worms for musa this belize related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a telecommunications company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title belize telemedia limited & oldid 716512896 categories telecommunications companies of belizecompanies established in 1972belize stubstelecommunications company stubshidden categories use dmy dates from october 2012pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 april 2016 at 04 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view