The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) will be responsible for developing projects in Buenos Aires, Osa, Corredores, Coto Brus and Golfito. Meanwhile Claro de Costa Rica is in charge of projects in the area of ​​Perez Zeledon.

From a statement issued by the Superintendence of Telecommunications (Sutel):

The Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel) today gave its approval for the trust managed by the National Bank of Costa Rica to proceed with the award of public tender contracts published in the Online Communities Program, which will provide phone and broadband Internet services in six counties in the south of the country, through the implementation of the resources of the National Telecommunications Fund (FONATEL).

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Costa Rica: $6 million for Telecommunications

February 2017

The state run electricity company ICE and Claro have obtained contracts to build infrastructure to provide internet and mobile telephony services in 620 communities in the province of Limon.

From a statement issued by the Sutel:

January 5, 2017. The National Telecommunications Fund (FONATEL) through Banco Nacional, as administrator of the Trust, signed contracts with Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) and Claro to bring internet telephony to 620 vulnerable communities in the districts of Siquirres, Pococi, Guácimo, Matina, Limón and Talamanca.

Transparency and Competition Vs. Enforceability?

July 2013

Costa Rica has $216 million to spend in bringing telephony and internet services to areas with no communication, a situation that causes clashes between the President and the Telecommunications Superintendency.

President Chinchilla asked the telecommunications regulator in Costa Rica (SUTEL), to award the projects to bring internet services to schools to the state telecommunications company (ICE) without a bidding process.

Costa Rica: No Bids for Rural Telephony

March 2013

The project to use wireless technology to bring Internet communications to isolated rural communities has not attracted any companies.

No companies showed interest in the project to provide telephone and internet services to six Costa Rican Caribbean communities.

Nacion.com reports that "the Telecommunications Superintendency (Sutel) said that it did not receive any bids to develop the project of the National Telecommunications Fund (Fonatel) in six communities in Siquirres and Pacuarito.

Tender for Rural Telephone Coverage

October 2012

An announcement has been made in Costa Rica for a tender for a project to give rural communities mobile and fixed telephone coverage, with funding from the National Telecommunications Fund.

The National Telecommunications Fund (Fonatel) is endowed with payments for operating licenses awarded to telecom operators such as Claro and Movistar, and currently has $190 million to be used to promote access to quality, timely, efficient, affordable and competitive telecommunications services, for the inhabitants of areas of the country where the cost of investment for the installation and maintenance of infrastructure for the provision of these services is not financially profitable.