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8.000 Cellular Lines on Sale
Looking to purchase a cellular
line? The Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) has some 8.000 of the TDMA
lines on sale since yesterday
and is offering it first to
those who have already made a
formal request and then to the
general sale after filling all
the back logged orders.
To get the line, customers need
to bring their request order, a
TDMA telephone with a receipt of
purchase and ˘12.500 colones for
the deposit.
To obtain cellular service in
Costa Rica, customers have to re
citizens or legal residents, a
copy of their cedula is
required. Non residents cannot
subscribe to the cellular
network.
ICE says the 8.000 lines are
lines that have been lost by
customers who failed to pay
their bills.
ICE says it has some 50.000
requests for customers who want
cellular service and hopes to
satisfy that need, hopefully by
the end of this year when the
new GSM network is expected to
be installed and operational.
Following more than a year of
setbacks and accusations of
corruptions, ICE signed a deal
with the Ericsson company to
install 600.000 GSM cellular
lines, worth some us$130 million
dollars. ICE expects the to
offer the service by not later
than December of this year.
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