Mobil Satellite Technologies expands in the Americas with IntelsatTuesday, October 14, 2008 The telcom company has acquired satellite capacity in order to expand its services in Central America, the Caribbean and North America. Mobil Satellite Technologies uses Intelsat satellites to provide broadband services to homes, cars, and disaster command centers and the miltary. Business ContinuityThursday, May 3, 2012 From 21st to 22nd May the Latin American Conference on Business Continuity and Information Security will take place in Costa Rica. National and international experts will analyze and discuss the key pieces to improving the business continuity program, technologies and data integrity in businesses. This will take place during the Second Latin American Conference on Business Continuity and Information Security to be held in Costa Rica on 21st and 22nd May at the Hotel Radisson Europa. Akamai Technologies Announces Costa Rican OperationsThursday, November 15, 2012 The U.S. cloud computing company has announced that it will open a contact center in Costa Rica. Scheduled to begin operations in 2014, the center will provide technical support and customer services to Latin America and will initially employ 50 people. Sensient to Open Costa Rica FactoryTuesday, December 15, 2009 The multinational company, which manufactures colors, flavors and fragrances, will serve Central America and the Caribbean from Costa Rica. Sensient Technologies' operation in the country will comprise research and quality control, in addition to developing products for Central America and the Caribbean. Company Profile Organization that operates in Costa Rica and Panama.
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State of the art Web application development. Tegra Medical Acquires Costa Rican PlantWednesday, June 30, 2010 The medical devices company acquired Pen United Technologies’ manufacturing operations in San José, Costa Rica, at Global Park tax-free trade zone. The contract manufacturer bought the 20,000-square-foot facility from Penn United Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of metal components and assemblies. Costa Rica: Lines Contract Awarded to Huawei AnnuledThursday, February 19, 2009 The Comptroller’s Office rejected the awarding of a total of 2.5 million prepaid lines for cellular and land line telephone systems, granted to the Chinese Huawei Technologies. Vanessa Loaiza in her article in Nacion.com writes: "The news was transmitted at the end of the afternoon in electronic version in the newspaper El Financiero. According to this medium, the rejection was given because Huawei initially offered a total of $10.1 million for the pre-paid lines and then later applied a discount that left its offer at $6.4 million." Costa Rica: Pre-Paid Cell Phones Continue On HoldMonday, February 23, 2009 The Comptroller’s Office of the Republic ordered ICE to analyze if the price offered by Huawei Technologies would permit it to comply with the contract. Esteban Oviedo in an article of Nacion.com writes: "The controlling institution revised the order passed last Monday, when they annulled the awarding of the contract to the Chinese company. This happened after the business lowered its initial price and offered a discount of almost 40% (of $3.7 million). Huawei wins appeal in Costa Rica on prepaid phone serviceFriday, October 31, 2008 The prepaid telephone service that was assigned to Ericcson for $12.2 million was canceled due to an appeal by Huawei Technologies. The Costa Rica Institute of Electricity (ICE), the regulatory organ for telecommunications in the country, granted the contract to Ericcson Costa Rica last July that will allow the company to market 2.5 million prepaid fixed and cellular lines. Costa Rican Tech Company Acquires Silicon Valley FirmThursday, May 6, 2010 Avantica Technologies has acquired Open Mountain Inc., a U.S. consulting and application development firm. With the purchase, Avantica added offices in San Francisco and Sillicon Valley, in addition to existing ones in San José - Costa Rica, San Carlos – Costa Rica, Lima – Peru and New York. Sole offer for 3G network rejected in Costa RicaTuesday, September 2, 2008 The Costa Rica Institute of Electricity (ICE) confirmed yesterday that it has rejected Huawei Technologies' offer for 1.5 million 3G cellular lines. The offer was too expensive and did not meet coverage requirements, declared Pedro Pablo Quirós, president of ICE. Geothermal plant tendered for $65 million in Costa RicaTuesday, January 27, 2009 Ormat Technologies signed a contract with the BCIE to provide and operate a geothermal energy plant. The plant will be installed in the Las Pailas area in Costa Rica and will be used by the Costa Rica Institute of Electricity. It should be completed in 18 months from the signing of the contract. Sole offer by Huawei Technologies to pay 159% more for cellular network in Costa RicaTuesday, August 5, 2008 The $583 million offer in the bidding for the 3G cellular network is $358 million higher than the cost of $225 estimated by the I.C.E. After signing a joint letter with four other leading telecommunications companies objecting to the tendering conditions and alleging that it was not possible to present an offer that would comply with the requirements of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) - Costa Rica's telecom company, the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Costa Rica was the only company to make a formal offer to install the 3G cellular network of 1.5 million lines in the country. President of Costa Rica ask that 3G contract not be granted to HuaweiFriday, August 22, 2008 Oscar Arias recommended to officials of the Costa Rica Institute of Electricity (ICE) that they not grant the contract for the project to the only company that participated in the bidding process. The President said in a letter sent yesterday to Pedro Pablo Quiros, head of ICE, that the best option is to redo the process and try to get more telecommunications companies to participate. |
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