In Honduras, a tender has been launched for a preventive and corrective maintenance service for telecommunications equipment, for the period from August 2018 to December 2020.
Honduras Government Purchase Public Tender No.10-2018:
"Contracting of the preventive and corrective maintenance service for the Cisco telecommunications equipment at the Central Bank of Honduras, as follows:
Instituto Nacional de Electrificación de Guatemala is putting out to tender maintenance services for the microwave communications equipment at the institution's generation plants.
Guatemala Government Purchase 7785356:
"Requirements are for a service of preventive and corrective maintenance of terminal stations, repeaters and peripheral equipment associated with the digital micro wave network, installed in plants, reservoirs and indicated repetition points.
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is inviting bids for the implementation of a communications system for agencies and customer service centers nationwide.
Government Purchase 2015LA-000071-0000400001 Costa Rica:
"The goal is to implement an IP Communications System at approximately 140 sites and buildings, including agencies of the Integral Support Centers (CAICS) across the country."
Communications currently being the engine of development, Latin America is moving at low speeds in a vehicle that is too costly.
An article in Elfinancierocr.com quotes the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, who highlights what all Latin Americans are suffering from: a brutal disadvantage in the availability of broadband connectivity, compared with developed countries.