Cell Phone Sales Slow
Monday morning, at
8:00am sharp, the
Instituto Costarricense
de Electricidad (ICE)
put on sale 340.000 GSM
lines - 300.000 new and
40.000 of lines that
were forfeited by their
owners for lack of
payment. However, sales
have been less than
expected.
As of 4:00pm yesterday,
ICE reports only the
activation of 10.130
lines although it has
capacity to connect up
to 10.000 lines daily.
According to ICE
figures, Monday there
were 2.686 activations,
3.483 on Tuesday and
3.961 yesterday.
Each day ICE does a
tally of the activations
for the day at 4:00pm.
83% of the activations
were made by ICE
employees at agencies
around the country and
the rest at more than
300 authorized
retailers.
The expected lines just
did not happen and ICE
officials are not
offering any
explanations.
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