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ICE Promotes "Prepago"
- Prepaid Cellular Service
The Institutio Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) - the state telecom and only cellular
service provider in Costa Rica - has been
promoting its "Prepago!" mobile services
that will allow customers to purchase a
cellular line without a contract or
commitment and in set amounts, which can be
recharged over the internet.
But, there is a catch. ICE doesn't have the
lines to fill the order. And in ICE
tradition, it is taking reservations when
there are lines available.
The Prepago! brings ICE in line with other
countries where prepaid cellular service is
common, where customers walk in to a
communications centre, purchase a set amount
of prepaid service, install the SIM chip in
their mobile telephone and are set to make
and receive calls.
The service is very useful to visitors of a
country or to those who want to keep their
cellular telephone costs in check.
The prepaid service has eluded Costa Rica.
And it will continue to do for visitors and
foreigners, as ICE still requires customers
to be either nationals or residents.
In addition, customers are required to bring
in their telephone equipment to an ICE
agency to sign up for the service and
provide a recent utility bill. The only
difference from the subscription to ICE's
regular cellular service, is the elimination
of the ¢12.500 colones deposit.
ICE says this is a "pilot" program and the
cost of the prepaid service ranges from
¢2.500 to ¢10.000 colones.
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