The Superintendence of Telecommunications, as Sectorial Competition Authority, approved the purchase by Cabletica of 100% of the operations of Telefonica de Costa Rica, which offers telephony and mobile Internet services nationwide.
Last year, countries in the region imported communication radios for $52 million, and Central American purchases from Mexican companies increased by 79% compared to what was reported in 2019.
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The Costa Rican Electricity Institute bids the supply of telephone cables that will be used to provide connectivity to broadband solutions to end customers, from copper distribution cabinets.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2021LA-000003-0000400001:
"All of these telephone cables will be used to provide connectivity to the broadband solutions to end customers, starting from the copper distribution cabinets, up to the dispersion boxes in the secondary network.
In the first nine months of 2020, the countries of the region imported communication radios for $39 million, and Central American purchases from Mexican companies increased by 36% compared to what was reported in the same period of 2019.
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After the session between Sutel and the operators interested in participating in the public auction of the 5G network, the businessmen ask the authorities to draw up a roadmap and a schedule that includes the recovery and availability of the required frequencies.
Claro, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), Telefónica, Call May Way, Huawei Technologies Costa Rica, Next Curve, Telecable, Viasat and Cabletica, were some of the 12 operators that attended the hearing called by the Superintendence of Telecommunications (Sutel), in which the willingness of the companies to participate in the public auction of the frequencies of the radioelectric spectrum in question was known.
The company Telefonica went from monopolizing 22.3% of the total mobile telephone subscriptions in the country in 2015, to concentrating 29.9% at the end of last year.
According to a report prepared by the Superintendence of Telecommunications (Sutel), which was released on November 17th, in the last few years Telefonica has gained ground in the mobile telephone market, and in the cases of Claro and the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE), they have decreased their share.
Telefonica announced that it had reached an agreement with Liberty Latin America for the sale of the entire capital stock of its operation in Costa Rica, a transaction totaling $500 million.
After Millicom announced that it exercised its right to cancel the Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Telefonica's operating subsidiary in Costa Rica, the Spanish firm will focus on strengthening its operations in the Central American country.
Eight months after the Telecommunications Superintendence authorized the economic concentration requested for Millicom to buy the shares of Telefónica de Costa Rica TC S.A., the parties announced on May 2nd that they had decided to rescind the agreement.
The Costa Rican Institute of Electricity tenders the maintenance services and installations in the telecommunications network in the central and northern Pacific sector, under the delivery on demand modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LA-000022-0000400001:
"The Contractor must have the following equipment and tools
Millicom announced that it exercised its right to terminate the Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Telefonica's operating subsidiary in the Central American country.
The new commercial reality in which online shopping and changes in consumer habits have forced companies to rethink their sales strategies, so it is essential to understand how people behave in the digital environment.
The report "Internet in Central America", prepared by the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, provides the most updated data on the presence of Internet users in the region, users by gender, educational level and other details. In addition to the behavior of the uses in each country and the channel where they connect.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute tenders the maintenance service and installations in the telecommunications network, for the western metropolitan region.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LI-000002-0000400001:
"The contracted service will be carried out in the established area, in the territory covered by each plant that makes up the lines, with a scope of action in exceptional cases of 60 kilometers around the limit of the contracted area.
The Costa Rican Institute of Electricity tenders the maintenance service in the telecommunications network for the Huetar Atlántico area, under the delivery on demand modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LA-000001-0000400001:
"Maintenance service and facilities in the telecommunications network (Voice, broadband and TV). The Contractor must guarantee that the works executed will be carried out with the highest quality, complying with the requirements of the contracting sign and the applicable standards by the trained staff, the guarantee for these works will be of two (2) months in case of the installations and readjustments and of one (1) month in case of breakdowns, from the date in which ICE receives the service to its full satisfaction the Contractor will be committed to correct at its own expense and risk, including transportation and any other additional expense, all the works executed that do not comply with the requirements and standards indicated by ICE.
In the first six months of 2019, the countries of the region imported communication radios for $42 million, with companies in Costa Rica and El Salvador being the main buyers.
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The Superintendence of Telecom of Costa Rica tenders the supply of tools to detect and block the use of stolen mobile terminals or with adulterated, duplicated or cloned IMEIs.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2019LN-000002-0014900001:
"Objective or activity of the plan: To provide SUTEL with the tools to detect and block the use of stolen or adulterated, duplicated or cloned IMEIs through the processing and analysis of data such as MSISDN, IMSI and IMEI obtained from mobile operators and service providers, so that users are restricted from connecting equipment in irregular conditions on mobile telephone networks.