3G Internet Down
For Hours On
Thursday
If you couldn't
connect with
your 3G, either
by cell phone or
data card, you
were not alone
as the Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad
(ICE) system was
down between
noon and 3pm on
Thursday.
The
disconnection
was intermittent
for the three
hours, one
moment it was
fine, the next
no connection.
Elberth Duran,
spokesperson for
ICE, explained
that a power
failure at the
Paso Ancho plant
caused the
failure of the
mobile internet
over the 3G
network.
Although ICE
claims to have
resolved the
problem in less
than 30 minutes,
users
experienced
problems with
connection for
hours.
ICE says that it
is owed some
˘1.1 billion
colones by
customers who
bought into the
3G payment plan
that included
high end
telephones. The
state
institution now
requires new
customers to
provide some
proof of ability
to pay, in the
past all it
required is a
deposit ˘12.500
(us$23) and the
promise to pay.
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