In Costa Rica a tender is being launched for the implementation of 100 MB of wireless internet access in parks, plazas, train stations and other public spaces.
$45 million will be invested in the project, and the aim is to connect 985 wireless access points in 360 districts of the country's 82 cantons, including 62 public libraries, 28 train stations and 7 civic centers for peace.The delivery of offers is scheduled for November 2017.Seedetails of the tender.
For the third time the date for submitting bids in the 70 MHz tender for the radio spectrum for international mobile technology services has been postponed.
For the third time, the deadline has been changed for submitting the proposals, after the operators interested in thetender filed appeals and objections against the tender conditions.
State institutions avoid competition between telecoms companies by hiring telecommunications services, without using tender processes and without time limits, from the state run Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad and Radiográfica Costarricense.
Instead of creating tenders to generate healthy competition between telecommunications operators and to find the best cost / benefit ratio, as all private companies do, state institutions renew agreements with the state run ICE and RACSA despite the market opening of the telecommunications industry, regardless of price or terms of service that they offer.
The Central Bank of Costa Rica has awarded Altus Consulting, Data Tell Tres Mil, SPC Internacional, and Vinet Technology Advisor, two contracts to supply telecommunications equipment.
The company Data Tres Mil de Costa Rica SA won the contract for the best price, of $6,956,678, while the other three bidders won contracts for amounts ranging between $8000 and $65,000.
The new Vice Minister said they are waiting for two more studies before deciding how and when to tender the unused radio spectrum that mobile operators have waited so long for.
Although the former deputy minister said that the frequencies would be tendered at the beginning of this year, his controversial departure from the Ministry and the arrival of his replacement will further delay the process.
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.
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.
The government has confirmed that the auction of the remaining 70 MHz of spectrum in 2015 will be only among the three current telecommunications operators.
In the end the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (Micitt) announced that the auction of radio spectrum of 70MHz in early 2015, which aims to strengthen the current market, will be launched without the involvement of a fourth operator, as was originally considered.
Although in Costa Rica the convenience of the de-monopolization of the communications has been demonstrated, there is still resistance on the part of the government to allowing more operators to enter the market.
The market entry of a fourth mobile phone operator and thickening of the offer with 40Mhz are the two factors that are being studied before a call is made for bids which had been scheduled for the first months of 2015.
The tender scheduled for the second half of the year includes a block of 40 MHz from the 1800 MHz band and a 30 MHz from the bands 1900/2100 MHz
After being canceled in late April by the Chinchilla administration, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Communications has decided to restart the project and is analysing how the bidding process will be structured.
The second tender planned for this year which would have allowed the entry of a fourth company into the phone market will not be completed.
According to the executive power, who took the decision to suspend the tender, there is not enough information available because the technical report of the Telecommunications Authority is "inconclusive" and contains figures which are out of date.
Claro, Movistar and the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad are competing for a contract for telecommunications services in isolated communities.
These three operators submitted bids in a contest sponsored by the Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel) to provide telecommunications services to residents of the communities of La Lidia, La Curia and Aguas Fría in the district of Roxana de Pococí in Limon.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications of Costa Rica is putting out to tender a contract for National Spectrum Management and Monitoring.
The national system of spectrum management and monitoring project, has as its object the acquisition of land and infrastructure for four fixed monitoring stations, and leasing of all equipment and accessories needed to carry out the management, spectrum monitoring and location emissions that includes at least four fixed stations, two portable stations, 3 mobile stations and a central monitoring and management hub.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications is inviting interested companies to participate in a preliminary hearing in order to receive comments on a draft tender.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications (SUTEL) is inviting interested companies to participate in a preliminary hearing in order to receive comments on a draft International Competitive Tender for Monitoring and Managing the National Spectrum for SUTEL.
The Banco Popular and the Banco de Desarrollo Comunal in Costa Rica have created a tender for the construction of electricity networks and structured cabling for voice and data.
The contract includes hiring companies that offer design services, labor, materials and equipment for the construction of electricity networks and structured cabling for voice and data in all offices of Banco Popular (consumer demand).