Telecoms news from Costa Rica

Ingram Micro Hires 300 Costa Rican to Repair Mobile Phones

Consumer electronics distributor, Ingram Micro has announced the opening of a new facility in Costa Rica, creating some 300 local jobs. ...more.

Costa Rican Regulator to Monitor Networks Performance

Costa Rica's telecoms regulator, Sutel, has selected Aircom's Asset tool to analyse and benchmark the performance of the country's mobile network infrastructure. ...more.

Costa Rican Networks Sign Up Half a Million Customers

The two new mobile networks in Costa Rica have signed up around 500,000 customers since they launched last December. ...more.

Telefonica and Claro Spice up Costa Rican Telecom Market

State-owned ICE faces important challenges and opportunities as a result of the recent liberalization and entry of new competitors into Costa Rica's mobile market, ...more.

Alcatel-Lucent Wins Request to Transfer Bribery Case to Costa Rica

An appeal by Alcatel-Lucent to move a bribery court case from the USA to Costa Rica has been upheld by the Circuit Court in Miami, against the wishes of Costa Rica's Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). ...more.

Costa Rica's ICE Looks for Overseas Growth as Competition Looms

Costa Rica's former monopoly mobile network operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) says that it will look to expand overseas as it faces competition in its home market for the first time later this year ...more.

Telefonica and America Movil Granted Mobile Licenses in Costa Rica

Costa Rica's monopoly for mobile phone services held by the state-owned Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) has been broken after the regulator finally awarded mobile licenses to Telefonica and America Movil. ...more.

Alcatel-Lucent Pays $137 Million to Settle Bribery Lawsuits

Alcatel-Lucent has settled a long-running bribery case with the USA's Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice. ...more.

Further Delays to Costa Rican Mobile License Tender

The awarding of a mobile operator license in Costa Rica has been pushed back again to the middle of next January, marking the latest in a series of delays in breaking the monopoly held by the state-owned ICE. ...more.

Questions Over Costa Rican Mobile License Tender

Costa Rica's Comptroller General's Office has instructed the telecoms regulator, Sutel to update the bidding document for the forthcoming mobile license tenders following complaints from some of the bidders about the tender document. ...more.

Costa Rica's TDMA Subscribers Refusing to Switch to GSM

Around 73,000 users of an older TDMA network in Costa Rica are refusing to switch to the newer GSM network, despite several months of network problems. ...more.

Costa Rica Publishes Tender Documents for New Mobile Licenses

Costa Rica's telecoms regulator, Sutel has published the bidding rules for the tender to operate one of up to three mobile phone networks. ...more.

Costa Rica's Liberalization Will More Than Double Mobile Subscribers by 2015

Costa Rica's telecommunications market offers opportunities with its new liberalization, opening the door for competition across all segments and boosting mobile penetration to 136 percent by 2015 with prepaid subscriptions, ...more.

Costa Rica's ICE Moves Alcatel-Lucent Bribery Allegations to the USA

Costa Rica's telecommunications provider, El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) has filed a complaint in Miami, Florida, against Alcatel-Lucent relating to bribery allegations affecting a former mobile network contract. ...more.

Alcatel-Lucent Corruption Trial Begins for ex-Costa Rican Leader

Ex-Costa Rican leader goes on trial in bribery case that led to his resignation as OAS chief ...more.

Alcatel-Lucent Pays Fine to Settle Bribery Allegations

Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to pay US$10 to settle a long-running corruption case in Costa Rica. The company had been accused on paying bribes to the former Costa Rican President, Miguel Angel Rodriguez and other government officials to win a US$149 million contract from the state-owned telco, ICE in 2001 ...more.

Costa Rica to Offer New Mobile Operator License

Costa Rica has announced details of plans to break the telecoms monopoly held by he state-owned Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) and introduce competition into the mobile phone market. ...more.

Costa Rica Asks GSM Subscribers to Switch Off their Phones this Weekend

This weekend, the Costa Rican mobile network operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) is asking its subscribers to turn off their phones on Saturday night as it switches its network from older infrastructure to a newer platform. ...more.

DragonWave Provides WiMAX Backhaul for IBW's Costa Rica Rollout

DragonWave says that it has won a Ethernet backhaul contract for IBW's new WiMAX business services in Costa Rica. ...more.

Digicel Interested in Costa Rican Mobile License

Caribbean mobile operator Digicel is planning to bid for a mobile operator license in Costa Rica when the licenses are sold next year. ...more.