Transparency and Competition Vs. Enforceability?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.Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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. Source: Nacion.com ¿Busca soluciones de inteligencia comercial para su empresa?Awards: Telecoms Projects for $10 millionMay 2015 In Costa Rica contracts have been awarded to the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad and Claro to provide telephony and broadband Internet services in six cantons in the south of the country. Costa Rica: $14 million for TelecommunicationsJune 2014 With resources from the National Telecommunications Fund the infrastructure required to provide services in the north of the country will be built. Bureaucracy Slows Broadband Penetration in Costa RicaMay 2013 The multitude of paperwork and the Fondo Nacional de Telecomunicaciones are the obstacles preventing major progress in implementing fast internet services in Costa Rica. Tender for Rural Telephone CoverageOctober 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.
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