The Internet

Internet in Central American can be iffy at best.  Here at Mario's Marina we have been limited to 40MB a day.  The Satellite System kept crashing and well... some days the internet just plain sucks!
Thus began the search for a different source for internet.  Most of us who have been on the river for more than one season have what we all call disposible phones.  They are pay as you go and you can get plain or fancy.  Having a phone has allowed us to forward our Skype account to our Guatemalan phone and get cheap calls to and from the States and Europe.  We love it.  Now Mobile Internet has come to Tigo, which is our provider.  I love it.  The unit wasn't that expensive.  You got one free month.  It costs about $30 a month to have unlimited service.  This means that we can still get new music for our ipods, download movies and surf the net to our hearts content.

Here are some interesting facts about Tigo.
TIGO Guatemala is the biggest subsidiary of TIGO in Central America with a base of more than 4 million subscribers
Here in Guatemala it has for competitors being one of the most competitive markets it competes against:

• The Spanish movistar
• The Mexican Claro

On August 29, 2008 TIGO launched their 3.5G data network operating on the HSDPA 850 MHz band, and is currently the only 3.5G network in Guatemala, as well as the one with least speed caps (a cap of 3.6Mbit/s has been set) while other networks (such as Claro) cap their network at around 1.5Mbit/s.

Wasn't that insightful?  My point????? Because of Tigo I can Blog as much as I want.  Lucky you.