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.
In Costa Rica, the Omar Dengo Foundation is bidding for the provisioning of Internet connectivity and security/intelligence services at the edge of the network of educational centers, under the on-demand consumption modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2021PP-000001-FOD:
"The required technological service, which has been named Bicentennial Educational Network, consists of a contract whose scope is limited to the provisioning of Internet connectivity and security/intelligence at the edge of the network of educational centers. The network edge is understood as the connection point between the educational center and the ISP.
Between 2018 and 2020, it is estimated that the demand for data services in the fixed and mobile network grew 2.5 times, a rise that can be partly explained by the need to work at a distance and receive educational services online.
Because of the spread of covid-19 and the imposition of restrictions on mobility, businesses, workers and consumers have had to migrate to the digital environment at great speed.
In the Dominican Republic, a tender has been launched for connectivity services and the implementation of structured cabling for 650 public education centers within the framework of the Digital Republic Program.
Dominican Republic Government purchase MINERD-CCC-LPN-2020-0015:
"We seek to acquire the following services or plans determined according to the student population of each of the 650 Educational Centers:
In Guatemala, a legislative project prohibiting cuts in water, electricity, cable TV, telephone and Internet services during the state of calamity, which was decreed by the outbreak of covid-19 in the country, was published.
After multiple struggles, Decree 15-2020 was published on May 21 in the Diario de Centroamérica, which was approved by the deputies and then vetoed by President Alejandro Giammattei.
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.
In the third debate, the National Assembly approved the bill that considers the suspension of charges for electricity, fixed and mobile telephony and Internet services for four months.
This benefit will be available to self-employed workers, micro and small businesses, which have been affected in their income, as well as owners of restaurants, bars, casinos, public and private transport, affected by the pandemic, reported the Assembly.
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.
After Telefónica was acquired by Millicom, the company plans to invest $1.25 billion in the next five years to expand the network and its services to companies in the country.
On May 16, Millicom reported that it closed the acquisition of Telefonía Celular de Nicaragua, S.A., the number one mobile operator in the country, in addition to TIGO Nicaragua's existing cable operation.
The lack of proper infrastructure and the lack of allocation of radio spectrum are some of the reasons why it is difficult for telecommunications companies to improve Internet connection or lower prices for services.
Internet operators in Costa Rica face adversities to improve service and provide better prices to consumers, including the deficit of appropriate infrastructure.
The National Civil Police of Guatemala tenders the monthly supply of 1.5 million minutes of voice per month of mobile telephony and Internet 15 thousand GB.
Guatemala Government Purchase 7691211:
"The service offered must have one million five hundred thousand minutes (1,500,000) of monthly voice, which will be assigned at the request of the entity through a WEB platform or local use of control platform, or an equivalent tool that performs the administration and monitoring of the terminals and use of the resources of the plan contracted by the NCP and / or direct request to the supplier company, as long as it has this tool that must be delivered to the NCP within three (3) months from having notified the contract approval resolution. It should include training in the use of the tool for staff designated by the NCP.
Because of the increase in mobile phone access, the monthly demand for mobile data per user in Guatemala is expected to grow from 0.4 GB to 2.45 GB between 2018 and 2023.
According to GlobalData forecasts, it is estimated that in the next five years the country will report an increase in the number of LTE (high-speed Internet) lines, rising from 1.7 million in 2018 to 5.6 million in 2023.
The percentage of the population with Internet access in Central America increased 17% between 2016 and 2018, increasing from 44% to 61%.
Data from the report "Internet in Central America 2018", compiled by the Commercial Trade Area of CentralAmericaData:
Currently, Costa Rica is the Central American country with the highest proportion of households with Internet access, with 77% of the total, followed by Panama with 67% and Honduras with 31%.
In the fourth quarter of 2017, mobile telephone lines in Honduras totaled just over 8.2 million subscribers, registering an increase of 5% compared to the third quarter of the same year.
According to a report by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), at the end of 2017 of the total number of mobile telephony subscribers in the country, 662,652 subscribers were using the Post-payment format, representing 8% of the total subscribers, while 7,570,847 corresponded to the Pre-payment format, representing 92% of the total.
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.
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