In Costa Rica, the supply and installation of LAN equipment is being tendered, which must be put into operation in 82 educational centers attached to PRONIE MEP-FOD. The contract includes support services and technical guarantee.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020PP-000006-FOD:
"The wiring must comply with the following standards:
ANSI/TIA/EIA 568 and ANSI/TIA/EIA 569: regarding the correct installation of the gutter and its accessories, as well as the correct installation of the pipe, either EMT or Conduit (PVC).
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.
With funding from the Inter-American Development Bank trunk network lines and last mile lines will be will be implemented to improve the broadband network in 72 municipalities.
In the project description published on the website of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) details are given of the $40 million loan which will be used to improve the state of the broadband network, carrying out the work needed to implement trunk networks and last mile lines in 10 municipalities that are currently outside of the national network and another 59 that are connected but whose level of penetration is 0.52%, below the national average of 2.17%.
While in other countries there are a greater variety of packages and lower prices than those offered in Costa Rica, lack of modernization of networks and costs are preventing operators from improving their services.
At present, only 56% of the population has internet access and of this total 80% use services with download speeds of 1 Mbps, 10% with 2 Mbps and less than 1% use download services with over 10 Mbps.
Panama is proposing installing on its territory a regional IXP to reduce the cost of data transmission between Central American countries.
An IXP is a piece of infrastructure which enables internet traffic to move between networks and through this interface to connect directly, without using an intermediate network. Among the advantages of an IXP are the higher availability of bandwidth and reducing costs in regional Internet traffic.
The presidency of Panama has announced it will be preparing a tender to launch in the next few days for 145 kilometers of sewerage networks in the district of San Miguelito, in the province of Panama.
From a statement issued by the Government of the Republic of Panama:
The president, Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez announced in Samaria, San Miguelito, that in the coming days there will be an auction of 145 miles of sanitary networks in this district which are needed to complete the Basic Health project.
The Municipality of Santa Rosa de Copan is putting out to tender the project management of construction works on Infrastructure Networks, Collectors, Outlets and a Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Government Purchase HND Honduras SDP-B-001-009-2014:
"Monitoring of Works on Network Infrastructure, Collector, Outlets and Wastewater Treatment Plant."
Timeframe to present offers: September 1st - October 13th, 2014.
The National Electricity Transmission Company of Nicaragua is putting out to tender the supply of electrical equipment and components for the construction of distribution networks.
Government Purchase Nicaragua 7/2014.
"LPI-007-2014-PNESER SUPPLY OF BUILDING MATERIALS FOR DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS".
The purchase is part of the National Program for Sustainable Electrification and Renewable Energy (PNESER).
With resources from the National Telecommunications Fund the infrastructure required to provide services in the north of the country will be built.
The municipalities of San Carlos, Los Chiles, Guatuso and Upala have signed an agreement to expedite the process needed to be completed by the telecommunications companies Claro and Movistar in order to install base stations and to provide Internet service in the area.
Costa Rica has implemented a Neutral Internet Exchange Point, a concept that could be extrapolated to the entire region to reduce operating costs and increase connection speeds.
There is no need to explain the benefits that greater use of the internet brings to economic development, which is always dependent on the associated costs. The integration of internet connectivity through so-called traffic exchange points (IXP), should be incorporated into strategies for Central American integration.
Movistar has invested $15 million in a latest generation fiber optic network which will interconnect overland with Central Mexico.
Movistar, the mobile phone brand of Telefónica, has invested $15 million in a fiber optic network that will cover 3,158 kilometers and will connect to Central America and Mexico by land.
Juan Castroverde manager of Movistar Panama said that "through the Central Telefónica network, companies will have greater capacity, quality, security and reliability of their data. The network will have an initial capacity of 10 Gigabits per second for data transmission, in addition to providing a variety of routes and connection points."
In order to meet the growing demand for mobile connectivity Cable and Wireless is expanding its cellular network in Panama City and Colon.
From a press release by Cable and Wireless Panama (CWP):
"The provider of wireless services has invested $50 million in upgrading the network implemented in 2011 and which serves much of the Panamanian population.