The Sutel has fined the company and given them a month to stop providing the service, for offering Internet services outside of the law.
The Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel) sanctioned the company IBW Comunicaciones, which provides mobile internet services under the brand name Japi, with a fine of $38,000 and ordered it to suspend services within one month.
In Costa Rica "... there are mobile operators who did not go through a public tender process, who do not pay for the frequencies they use, and who do not have any coverage obligations ..."
"We are talking about public property which five years ago, when the Telecommunications Act was passed, had a low profile and was largely unregulated," noted an article in Elfinancierocrc.om.