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

40.3% of mobile phone users in Costa Rica have a "smart" device and most of them expressed satisfaction with their operators, according to a survey released today.

The Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel) said today in a statement that a survey by the firm Demoscopía found that 40.3% of users have a smartphone and 80.2% of them have Internet connections that are above 1 Mbps (megabits per second).

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