Cellular Phones To Go
Silent At Midnight
A reminder that all
cellular phones in Costa
Rica will stop working
at the stroke of
midnight tonight and
will not be online again
until 6:00am Monday
morning.
The shutdown of the
cellular network is to
allow the Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) to
run trials on the new
eight digit number
system that is scheduled
to go into effect on
March 20.
Claudio Bermúdez,
subgerente de
telecomunicaciones del
ICE, explained that
starting at midnight
technicians will be
testing messaging
service, international
calling and local
calling features and of
course to ensure that it
links correctly to ICE's
billing system.
Similar tests were run
on fixed land ines
between February 13 and
14.
Our apologies, for
yesterday's announcement
that the cellular phones
would go silent at
12:01am Sunday. |
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