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Big Lottery Winners Spread Out In Five Provinces
At 7:14pm in downtown San José the "gordo navideño" numbers dropped from the tumbling wheel, with the number "90" with series "892" as the grand prize winner.

3G Sales Lukewarm, No Appointment Necessary Beginning This Week
The sales of the 3G cellular network have been slow, with less than 11.000 lines sold in the first week of its introduction, of which 6.000 were customers moving from the TDMA service. The last time ICE introduced new cellular lines it sold its maximum 5.000 lines per day.
 

 

Bank Robbers Hit Jackpot At Banco Popular
While most Costa Ricans waited with bated breath watching the tumbler of the lottery corporation for the big prize, a group of criminals hit the jackpot without even playing the lottery, taking millions of colones in the robbery of the Banco Popular de Alajuelita, San José.

Who Will Compete With ICE For Cellular Service?
The opening of the cellular telecommunications sector continues with the possible awarding of three cellular service licenses in the first months of 2010 and possible start of operation six months later, now that the state telecom, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), has handed over the required frequencies.



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Switching From TDMA To GSM / 3G

 
 
 

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  CENTRAL AMERICA

HONDURAS
Mounting Pressure For Letting Zelaya Leave Embassy in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran president elect Porfirio Lobo said on Sunday he is committed to enable ousted president Manuel Zelaya to leave the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he remains under refuge following a frustrated attempt last week.

PANAMA
More Poisoned People in Panama
PANAMA - The number of people affected by the consumption of medicines laced with the poison dietileneglicol in Panama exceeds 1,800 cases, revealed authorities.

GUATEMALA
Thousands of Weapons Seized in Guatemala
GUATEMALA - Guatemala'sNational Civil Police (PNC) seized 5, 614 weapons in Guatemala from January to October this year, according to a report published on Sunday.

  LATIN AMERICA

LATIN AMERICA
Leftist Latin America Bloc To Begin Using Its Own Currency
HAVANA - Members of a leftist bloc of nine Latin American nations said Saturday they plan to use a new currency dubbed the "sucre" for trade among themselves starting in January.

CUBA/VENEZUELA
Castro and Chavez Criticize US At Alternative Trade Summit In Cuba
HAVANA - Cuba’s President Raul Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez have criticised the US during a key alternative trade summit in Havana. Castro accused the US of treating Latin America as its “backyard” and denounced a deal giving US armed forces access to Colombian military bases.

COLOMBIA
Colombia Ecopetrol, Subsidiaries To Invest us$8.48 Billion In 2010
BOGOTA  - Colombia's state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol SA (EC, ECOPETROL.BO) will invest us$8.48 billion in its different operations in Colombia, Brazil, Peru and the U.S. in 2010, Chief Executive Javier Gutierrez said at a press conference Friday.

 
 
 
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CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: "Energy is an Instrument of Power"
"Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world," Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.

 

 


 
   
   

Your Photos Could Be Product Placements
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces

 
 


 
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Holidays in Costa Rica Bring Savings and Warm Weather
With tight budgets on everyone's minds and the cold, winter months just around the corner, Costa Rica is the ideal place where families can warm up, relax, and interact with the world around them, all while giving back to local communities and the environment and still not breaking the bank.
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  TECHNOLOGY
So What Is 3G And Do You Really Need It?
By the end of the year, Costa Rica, by way of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) will join the rest of the world with the introduction of the 3rd generation, better known as 3G, cellular network.
 
 
 

 

 
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