Between 2018 and 2020, it is estimated that the demand for data services in the fixed and mobile network grew 2.5 times, a rise that can be partly explained by the need to work at a distance and receive educational services online.
Because of the spread of covid-19 and the imposition of restrictions on mobility, businesses, workers and consumers have had to migrate to the digital environment at great speed.
From August 14, users of the Greater Metropolitan Area who consume television content openly and free of charge will have to modify their equipment to access the digital signal.
With the upcoming change in the country, televisions that are not yet ready to receive the digital signal must purchase a converter compatible with the Japanese Brazilian standard ISDB-Tb.
Five years after buying it, the Costa Rican state-owned electric company Racsa decided to close Fullmovil, a virtual operator dedicated to the commercialization of prepaid telephony services.
In February 2014, the Superintendence of Telecommunications announced that Radiográfica Costarricense - already in serious financial difficulties - acquired Fullmóvil, a virtual operator involved in the sale of paid telephony services.
Guatemalan companies are invited to participate in the third commercial and academic mission scheduled to take place in San Francisco, United States, from June 3 to 5.
The Guatemalan-American Chamber of Commerce is the institution organizing the mission, which aims to acquire new knowledge and establish contacts with companies such as Google, Uber, Cisco and Microsoft, among others.
The percentage of the population with Internet access in Central America increased 17% between 2016 and 2018, increasing from 44% to 61%.
Data from the report "Internet in Central America 2018", compiled by the Commercial Trade Area of CentralAmericaData:
Currently, Costa Rica is the Central American country with the highest proportion of households with Internet access, with 77% of the total, followed by Panama with 67% and Honduras with 31%.
Guatemalan companies are being called on to participate in a commercial and academic mission to San Francisco, United States from July 16 to 18.
The visit is being organized by the Guatemalan-American Chamber of Commerce. Waleska Sterkel de Ortiz, its executive director, commented that "... "The commercial mission provides added value and advantages for participants, such as savings in time and resources, development of strategies to venture into new sectors, networking and training."
The company Tigo has announced that it plans to invest $20 million in the installation of a TIER III data center in the Olocuilta free zone.
George Farkass, vice president of Tigo Business, explained to Laprensagrafica.com that "... The TIER III offers nine levels of reliability, and business continuity regardless of whether any natural disaster happens. It will be for any corporate client, not only for Tigo, and we will be the first to build it, we are not remodeling it, we are building it from scratch."
In 2017, the number of mobile telephone lines per 100 inhabitants was 179, 5% higher than the 170 reported in 2016.
Authorities reported that the historical behavior of the indicator shows that "...from 2006 to 2013, increases in penetration were observed year after year. However, in 2014, and for the first time since 2006, growth stopped, since in 2013 the penetration of mobile telephony per 100inhabitants was 151 and in 2014 it increased to 149."
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is evaluating the Salvadoran market to determine if there is an opportunity to establish itself as a new broadband operator.
The state telecommunications company already has a presence in Nicaragua, where in conjunction with the state company Enatrel, it operates the company Telecomunica, which provides internet and television services.
Since rules came into effect on number portability, Costa Rica's state telephone company has lost 559 thousand lines, which have swelled the client lists of the two foreign competitors that operate in the mobile telephony market.
The possibility of keeping the same cell phone number and changing operator has existed since November 2013, and since then, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) has lost almost 560 thousand lines, which passed into the hands of Telefónica, which operates the brand Movistar, and Claro, a brand of the Mexican company América Móvil.
The country is also losing competitiveness because of its internet services, with average speeds reported of just 6.9 Mbps on the 4G network, far away from the world average and below the rest of Central America.
A report by the international company OpenSignal reports that Costa Rica's 4G network has the worst average global speed, just above India, where the average speed of the 4G network is 6.13 Mbps.
In 2016, imports of communications radios and similar devices in Costa Rica totaled $37 million, 44% more than the previous year.
Figures from the Information System on the Market for Radios and Similar Devices in Costa Rica, compiled by the Business Inteligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with the graphic"]
With the declaration of effective competition in the mobile telecommunications market it is expected a reduction in prices and an increase in the commercial supply offered by operators.
Mobile telephony and mobile internet services are now free from tariff regulation by the Superintendence of Telecommunications (Sutel).The entity declared effective competition in this segment of the telecommunications marketon September 18.
A legal reform approved by Congress obliges telephone operators to register the IMEI code of cell phones, with the aim of minimizing smuggling and cloning of devices.
The amendment to Legislative Decree 19-2014 establishes that operators must register the IMEI code in a database that will be managed by the National Telecommunications Commission.