ICE Will Soon
Have Competition In Telephone Services
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) will soon have
competition. The newly created Superintendencia de
Telecomunicaciones (Sutel) - telecommunications board - confirmed
that Ticom, Amnet, ICANN, WorldCom, InterTel Worldwise and R&H
International Telecom, have all expressed an interest in opening up
the Costa Rican telecom industry.
ICE is currently the sole provider of telecommunications in Costa
Rica and until the end of last year had a 80 year monopoly in the
country.
With the passing of the Ley General de Telecommunicaciones and the
creation of the Sutel, the country is entering an era of competitive
telecommunications.
The process of evaluating the applications will commence next week.
Companies like Amnet already operate in Costa Rica, providing cable
television and cable internet (in conjunction with Racsa, an ICE
company) to residential and commercial customers, while the others
will be new to the Costa Rican market, interested in providing
cellular and fixed line telephone services, as well as internet and
other telecommunications services.
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