After the state run company Radiographic Costarricense (RACSA), a subsidiary of Grupo Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), rejected the project, despite recognizing the benefits it would bring to the general population, arguing that "it was not good business for the group ", the theme is being taken up by the aforementioned president, who has apparently questioned the decision to abandon the project.
The grounds given for RACSA’s abandonment of the project have generated widespread criticism, because as a state company it is bound to respect the interests of the nation above its own interests as a corporation.
An article in Elfinancierocr.com reported that "A meeting between the President of the Republic, Laura Chinchilla, and Swedish businessman Jonas Birgennson aims to revive the project that would enable Racsa to build a high speed network. The meeting was scheduled to start at 4 pm, according to the agenda posted on the President's site. Invited to the meeting are: Alejandro Cruz, Minister of Science and Technology, Rene Castro, Minister of Environment and Telecommunications, Juan Barrios, IT Director at the Office of the President, Roberto Sasso and Teofilo de la Torre, chief executive of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). In November, the board of Racsa archived the project with the company Vía Europa to deploy fiber optics to homes and offer 360,000 fast Internet connections. The initiative would deal with the problems facing the state-owned infrastructure of competing in the marketplace. "
Source: elfinancierocr.com
More on this topic
November 2011
Racsa has rejected a proposal by the Swedish company Via Europa to build a fiber optic network for homes in Costa Rica, which would be open to all Internet service providers.
An announcement by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) about its project, Range, to build a network to provide connections to the Internet via fiber optic and copper lines, seems to be the reason for the abandonment of this similar project driven by Radiográfica Costarricense (RACSA) .
August 2011
A project by a subsidiary of the ICE Group, which aims to build network infrastructure capable of delivering digital content at speeds between 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps, has been approved.
The project, pending since 2008, endorses the building of the high speed internet network by Radiographic Costarricense (RACSA) .
June 2010
“Radiográfica Costarricense” (Racsa) will invest in a new high speed Internet access network.
The new infrastructure will allow the company, a subsidiary from state-owned “Grupo ICE”, to offer Internet connections with speeds up to 1 GB.
“Oscar Chacón, Racsa’s commercial manager, acknowledged that, in order to become a reality, they must wait for financial authorities to approve a $360 million trust from Banco Nacional, to finance the project”, reported Nacion.com.
April 2009
The "Border to Border" Fiber Optic Network is ready and it will avoid service interruptions and increase speed.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) announced that the fiber optic network is already in operation. It "has a ring design in each area of the country to avoid service disruption if there is a rupture or loss of connection and to increase connection capacity or speed."
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