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.
Internet operators in Costa Rica face adversities to improve service and provide better prices to consumers, including the deficit of appropriate infrastructure.
Racsa has rejected a proposal by the Swedish company Via Europa to build a fiber optic network for homes in Costa Rica, which would be open to all Internet service providers.
An announcement by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) about its project, Range, to build a network to provide connections to the Internet via fiber optic and copper lines, seems to be the reason for the abandonment of this similar project driven by Radiográfica Costarricense (RACSA) .
A project by a subsidiary of the ICE Group, which aims to build network infrastructure capable of delivering digital content at speeds between 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps, has been approved.
The project, pending since 2008, endorses the building of the high speed internet network by Radiographic Costarricense (RACSA) .
Racsa Manager, Alberto Bermudez when interviewed by Elfinancierocr.com, referred to the contacts that the institution is making with the company Vía Europa to formalize a partnership in order to develop the project.
Columbus Networks will invest $2 million to lay 100 km of fiber optic cable underground in Panama City.
The company plans to install a cable line that will run under the Southern Corridor road. It also owns the fiber optic cable known as ‘Arcos’, and has an ownership stake in another major communications cable, the one called Maya.
Four major underwater communication cables pass through Panama: Maya, Arcos, South America Cables and Pan American Crossing.