No Connectivity, No Development

The lack of proper infrastructure and the lack of allocation of radio spectrum are some of the reasons why it is difficult for telecommunications companies to improve Internet connection or lower prices for services.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Internet operators in Costa Rica face adversities to improve service and provide better prices to consumers, including the deficit of appropriate infrastructure.

Regarding the causes that prevent the advance of broadband Internet connections in Costa Rica, Eduardo Palacios, country manager of the firm Ufinet, explained to Elfinancierocr.com that "... the determining factor is the lack of proper infrastructure in Costa Rica for telecommunications. Not only are the problems in the road works or in the centers of cities and neighborhoods, nor the negativity of some municipalities. They are also the difficulties to take a fiber optic link inside condominiums or shopping centers."

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Palacios added that "... The problem is not the ability of companies to deploy networks. That's out of the question. The bottleneck is the infrastructure, because in many condominiums there is no place to take the optical fiber to the houses. In many shopping malls you have to lay the pipe to take a link to a customer'."

Costa Rica is not the only country in the region where obstacles to the development of Internet connection are reported, given that in Guatemala the assignment of the radio electric spectrum is a pending matter.

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José Otero, director of 5G Americas for Latin America and the Caribbean, told Dca.gob.gt at the end of 2018 that "... It is important that mobile broadband connections reach a larger percentage of the Guatemalan population. To achieve this goal, it is necessary that enough radio spectrum be allocated to the different market players, in order to encourage investment in the deployment, expansion and adoption of new mobile technologies."

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