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COSTARICANEWS
| Saturday 28 August 2010 |
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Prepaid
Cell
Phones A
Big Hit
In Costa
Rica
Prepaid
cellular
phones
are big
hit with
Costa
Ricans,
with a
total of
660.000
subscribers
to the
service
by the
Instituto
Costarricense
de
Electricidad
(ICE)
that
went
online
April 19
this
year.
The
state
telecom
estimates
that one
quarter
of all
cellular
phone
users in
Costa
Rica
have a
prepaid
line.
Prepaid
lines
offer
customers
the
ability
to
control
their
cellular
phone
costs,
loading
their
line
with a
minimum
of ˘50
colones
(10
cents)
to a
maximum
of
˘10.000
colones
after
the
initial
acquisition
of the
service
with a
minimum
usage of
˘2.500
colones.
In this
way cell
phone
users
are not
burdened
with the
monthly
minimum
of about
˘4.000
that is
paid by
post-pay
subscribers.
However,
ICE
still
requires
subscribers
to be a
legal
resident
of
citizen,
a move
that is
puzzling
since
the
residency/citizen
requirement
was to
protect
the
institution
against
fraudulent
charges.
And each
person
is
restricted
a
maximum
of two
prepaid
cellular
lines.
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