Foot traffic data consists of spatial data (GIS), and is at the core of building intelligent strategies, transportation routes, processes and decision making in both public and private sectors.
What is it?
Foot traffic data associates people's movements with physical locations, and can be collected in different ways, such as WiFi signals, GPS from mobile devices and sensors, providing useful information for sectors like retail, real estate, agriculture, financial services, insurance, tourism, sports, entertainment, among others.
Using today's technology, it is possible to know and accurately monitor consumer mobility, identify the places they visit, how often they do so, at what times and on what days, and transform this mobility and pedestrian flow data into solutions for optimizing commercial and marketing strategies.
People mobility is a concept that covers much more than just movement.
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.
After a resolution was issued for the reorganization of the 700 MHz band, Telecomunicaciones de Guatemala S.A. and the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office submitted appeals for revocation to the Superintendence of Telecommunications.
The controversy originated after Comunicaciones Celulares S.A. bought from Albavision in 2019 the usufruct titles that are immersed in the 700Mhz band. This transaction was made in the secondary market.
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
In El Salvador, businessmen are preparing a proposal for the government to disconnect the 2G telephone network, so that services migrate to 4G and 5G technology.
The initiative, which is being prepared by the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), will be presented to the authorities during the National Meeting of Private Enterprise (Enade) 2019.
Up to January of this year, the number of Internet users in the country reached 6.9 million, 7% more than in the same month of 2018, and the service reaches 64% of the population.
According to the report "Digital 2019: Global Internet Use Accelerates", between January 2018 and the same month of 2019 the number of Internet users went from 6.4 million to 6.9 million.
America Movil reported that planned investments in the Dominican Republic over the next three years will focus on implementing 5G technology and developing new applications.
According to America Movil executives, which owns the Claro Dominicana brand, the Caribbean country is one of the markets where the company has experienced the highest growth in data consumption per user.
From January to March of this year, the country imported $34 million worth of mobile phones, 9% more than was purchased in the same period in 2017.
Figures from the Mobile Phone Market information system in Honduras, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
The General Directorate of Public Procurement of Panama is putting out to tender cellular voice and data mobile telephony services for State entities, for a period of 18 months.
Panama Government Purchase 2018-1-27-0-99-LM-001875:
"Annual plans are required with equipment included.Cell phone services are being tendered in seven different lines that include air minutes, and device specifications.On the other hand, mobile data services will be done through twelve different lines.
Representatives from the telephone company Tigo in El Salvador, announced that in 2018 they will invest $100 million in the expansion and maintenance of their network.
The telephony company started operating its LTE network last year, and in 2018 it plans to maintain and expand its infrastructure.
Marcelo Alemán, CEO of Tigo El Salvador, told Laprensagrafica.com that the investment of " ... $100 million will be for infrastructure and maintenance works ..." of the network, and it will also be investing "... another $150 million in promoting its products and services ... "
While mobile technologies are constantly increasing their significance in the lives of citizens, Costa Rican municipalities are still creating obstacles to the much needed installation of essential towers in their jurisdictions.
An article in Nacion.com reports that "...At a slow pace and going door to door, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (Micitt) is trying to convince 28 municipalities to facilitate the installation of cellular antennas in their cantons."
In the tender for 70 MHz of frequencies for telephone and mobile telephone and Internet services in Costa Rica, Claro paid $19 million for three blocks of frequencies and Movistar $24 million for four blocks.
In the against the clock auction, in a single round, the Telecommunications Superintendence (Sutel) sold the 70 MHz that had been left idle since the first radio spectrum contest was held in 2011.
Five years after the market opened up, three municipalities continue to prioritize landscape aesthetics versus the need to install structures to ensure cell phone coverage.
Two court cases motivated by the governments of the municipalities of Esparza and Moravia, and the filing an appeal with the Sala I by the Municipality of Curridabat, summarize the legal objections raised because of the installation of towers for the provision of cell phone services in Costa Rica, and which continue to generate controversy five years after the opening of the telecommunications sector, according to an article by Nacion.com.
español
9099
