By 2021, purchases of communication radios reached $69 million in Central America, with Nicaragua being the main importer in the Central American region for $15 million, the largest supplier was China with 37% of total sales, representing $25 million.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Units of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with the graphic"]
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With the accelerated arrival of the new commercial reality, consumers no longer divide the world between the physical and the digital, since now the purchasing processes are a constant succession that combines both aspects.
Due to the transformation of consumer habits that had been occurring since before the covid-19 crisis and that has now accelerated, companies are focusing on understanding how people decide on the purchases they make.
Personal care items, vehicle accessories, food and beverages are some of the products most demanded by consumers, who have migrated to digital platforms to make their purchases.
In the current scenario of confinement due to the health crisis in the region, consumers have disappeared from physical stores and have migrated to digital platforms to buy their products.
The Autonomous Executive Port Commission of El Salvador tenders the lease service of a digital radio communication system for the Port of Acajutla, for 2020.
El Salvador Government Purchase LP-04/2020:
"The Digital Communication System shall comply with the following aspects:
a) Permanent and interference-free communication
b) Clear, noiseless audio quality
The Ministry of National Defense of El Salvador tenders the supply of equipment, accessories and services of preventive and corrective maintenance of the Communications System of the Armed Force, including the equipment of cybersecurity devices.
El Salvador Government Purchase DR-CAFTA LA/029/2019/MDN:
"The system required by the institution must be able to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer systems, networks and critical infrastructure and counteract computer threats.
In the first nine months of 2018, countries in the region imported $100 million in communications radios, 12% more than what was purchased in the same period in 2017.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graphics]
In the first three months of 2018, countries in the region bought $34 million worth of communication radios, and 76% were imported by companies in Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama.
Figures from the information system on the Market for Communication Radios and Similar Devices in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
Last year, countries in the region bought $124 million worth of communication radios, and 67% were imported by companies in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.
Figures from the information system on the Market for Communication Radios and Similar Devices in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
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 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.
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad is putting out to tender a supply of simple trunked portable communication radios.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2017LA-000051-0000400001:
"Technical details of the required equipment:
- Compatibility with the Motorola Astro 25 trunked radio system (P25), control channel at 9600 BPS, in accordance with the ANSI / TIA / EIA 102 standard.