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Ticos Love To Talk On Their Cell
Phone
The love affair Costa Ricans
have with their cell phones is
not an exaggeration. According
to information by the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) - the country's monopoly
on telecommunications - the
average cellular phone
subscriber talked for six and
one half hours per month during
2006.
The average cellular telephone
bill was ˘9.028 colones
(us$17.36) monthly, wich is
˘6.128 colones (us$11.78) over
the basic monthly rate of ˘2.900
colones (us$5.57). The basic
rate includes 60 minutes of
calls made time.
The numbers mean a revenue of
˘13 billion colones (us$25
million dollars) for ICE from
1.450.000 cellular service
subscribers.
The total usage was based on
calls made and received.
Since ICE only bills customers
for calls made, all incoming
calls received are paid for by
the caller, the numbers
translate to an average of 198
minutes or more than three hours
of a month of calling.
And not all the calls are local.
Costa Ricans on the average in
2006 made 10 international phone
calls, for a total average
calling time of 43 minutes, from
each cellular phone.
The Instituto did not say who
calls more, men or women.
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