Sutel Sets Out Maximum
Telecom Rates
Telecom operators eyeing Costa Rica for new
market possibilities can offer potential
customers great deals to attract business,
but will have to a abide to a maximum price
level for the different services.
The Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel)
- the telecom regulator - announced on
Monday that the current rates by the
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) will be the maximum rates that can be
charged.
Currently ICE provides ADSL internet
services for us$19 per month for the basic
connection in residential homes to us$206.67
for business customers.
The rate for residential telephone service
is ˘4.10 colones a minute during peak hours
and ˘2 colones during evenings and weekends,
in addition to the ˘1.900 colones base rate.
Meanwhile cellular customers pay ˘30 colones
per minute during peak hours and ˘23 during
evening and weekends, in addition to the
˘3.500 colones base rate that includes 60
minutes of call time. Text messages are ˘1.5
colones per message.
The Sutel said that those rates are the
maximum that can be charged by ICE and
competitors when they begin operating in the
market, possibly by 2011. |
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