ICE Puts Time Limit On
Cellular Connection
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) said yesterday
that those customers with reservations for a new GSM cellular line
will have two weeks from their appointed date to connect to the
network or lose their place in line.
ICE is this week connecting customers with reservation numbers
between 08379076 and 08432010. Those who have not connected within
two weeks will then have to go to the back of the line again.
The state telecom says it has the capacity to only connect up to
20.000 lines daily as it completes its promise to have available
100.000 new GSM lines this month and another 100.000 next month.
The plan is to meet the demand for cellular service before the
competition is allowed to set up shop.
A number of foreign operators, like Movistar and Telefonica, have
expressed an interest in offering cellular service in Costa Rica, in
competition with ICE.
