With an investment of $1.1 billion it will connect to Brazil, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
The company announced that it has completed the installation of a submarine fiber optic cable which guarantee services. This project will connect Brazil, Colombia, the USA, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
The telecommunications trade fair will take place on 7th and 8th November at the Hotel Real Intercontinental.
The event will bring together more than 40 exhibitors related to the telecommunications sector, to present the latest trends in technology and innovative next generation services, promoting the industry at a time of great expansion in the country's economy.
The technology, mobile services and logistics solutions company has opened its first office in Costa Rica.
The Ingram Micro facilities are located in Santa Ana and will focus on repairing mobile devices.
"We chose Costa Rica because of its impressive infrastructure and its highly talented workforce. This location also expands our reach in the important Latin American market," said Christopher Newell, vice president of Global Reverse Logistics at Ingram Micro Mobility.
Green Valley Business and Tecnology Park will be built on 230 hectares of land in Costa Rica, designed to accommodate high-tech companies.
It is expected that the technology park to be built in Argentina de Grecia, will attract high-tech companies in areas such as manufacturing, health sciences and services. "Green Valley Business and Tecnology Park" will be built on 230 hectares of land which is currently farmland or disused land, said Francisco Bogantes, coordinator of the project, promoted by the Municipality of the town.
Nearly three-quarters of newly formed companies arise from ideas that are not very innovative, and there are very few that are export-oriented.
This was revealed by the "National Report 2012: the state of entrepreneurship in Costa Rica". "The research, made with the methodology of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), shows that 73% of new companies created do not offer any new products or services to customers, while for established firms the ratio is 60 % ", reported Nacion.com.
New firms are expected to entry in the remittance industry with new technologies, especially for mobile phones.
According to Luis Felipe Rodriguez, vice president and general manager of Western Union in Mexico, the slowdown in the U.S. economy has led to a slower pace of job creation, which along with more efficient border controls and even more restrictive laws in some states such as Arizona, has caused an unprecedented decline of migration to that country. "Regulation in the United States is changing the dynamics in the business of remittance companies," he says.
In order to reduce costs in computer security the Chinchilla administration has proposed using cloud services instead of acquiring its own infrastructure.
From a press release issued by the President of Costa Rica:
On Tuesday the president of the Republic Laura Chinchilla Miranda, the finance minister Edgar Ayales and the head of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, signed a guideline for saving computing resources in the State.
In Costa Rica there are currently more than 400 people employed in this sector, with a reported unmet demand for another 3000.
The study "Skills in networking and connectivity in Latin America", conducted by IDC for the company Cisco, reveals that there is currently a 43% gap between demand and actual supply of these professionals, which by 2015 could rise to 47 %.
During 2012 companies that set up in the country, together with established multinationals, generated more than $574 million.
A statement from the Costa Rican Coalition for Development of Initiatives (CINDE) reads:
Costa Rica surpasses record for third consecutive year in attracting foreign direct investment from high-tech companies.
Country sets a new record in new investment, new jobs and number of companies in the sectors of Services, Life Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing and Clean Technologies.
The growing Latin American potential for consumption of IT services is attracting information technology companies from India.
An article in Nearshoreamericas.com states that "An increasing number of Indian technology companies are expanding in the emerging markets of Latin America, in an attempt to reduce their excessive dependence on the already saturated markets of the United States and Europe ".
The associated reduced costs are driving opportunities in developing countries for technology sectors based on satellite communications.
Elfinancierocr.com published an interview by Mónica Cordero Sancho with the Deputy Secretary of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Houlin Zhao, who recently visited Costa Rica "to leverage the discussion in the area of radio spectrums to provide satellite services. '
Costa Rica is considering adopting the Chinese model of development of Special Economic Zones in order to promote the country as a high-tech industrial center.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica reads:
On the second day of their visit to China, the Costa Rican delegation accompanying the President of the Republic, Laura Chinchilla Miranda, visited the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) located in the town of that name, with the aim of learning from this successful model, and adapting it to the reality of the Costa Rican environment.
Technology companies and foreign nationals are meeting up at the event organized by the Trade Office, being held at the Hotel Real Intercontinental in Escazú.
More than sixty Costa Rican companies belonging to the area of Web services, otusourcing, digital animation and video games, among others, are taking part in business rounds with their foreign counterparts. The event which began on June 19, ends this Wednesday 20.
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By Fernando Ramirez - VP Sales, CA Technologies Central America and Caribbean
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IBM is opening a new center of information technology in Costa Rica as the first stage of a $300 million investment over 10 years.
This investment of $300 million is scheduled to run over 10 years and there are plans to employ about 1,000 professionals by 2014, reported Elfinancierocr.com.
Services to be provided at this site include assisting corporate clients in areas such as servers, storage systems, security services, maintenance and monitoring hardware and software, and defect prevention processes.