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Central America Internet Stats > Site Links > Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
Internet usage,
broadband and telecommunications reports
Internet Usage Statistics:
2,000,000
Internet users as of June, 2010;
43.7% of the population, according to RACSA.
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Costa Rica - officially the Republic of Costa Rica -
is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama
to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the
Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica was the first country in the world to
constitutionally abolish its army.
Costa Rica Population
Estimate:
4,195,914 population for 2008, according to the
US Census Bureau.
Latest Country GNI
Estimate:
GNI per
capita was US$ 4,590 for 2006, according to the World
Bank.
Country Area (Size):
51,090 sq km
- Population density: 85 persons per sq km
Internet Usage and
Population Growth:
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YEAR
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Users
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Population
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% Pen.
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Usage
Source
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2000
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250,000
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3,693,800
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6.8
%
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ITU
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2003
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800,000
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4,267,000
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18.7 %
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ITU
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2005
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1,000,000
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4,301,172
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23.2 %
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ITU
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2008
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1,500,000
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4,195,914
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35.7 %
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ITU
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Costa Rica Search Engines:
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Name
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Language
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Description
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BRUNCAS
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English
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Yellow Pages, White Pages,
Industrial and Real Estate Directory
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Costa Rica Click
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English
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Costa Rica
directory
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Costa Rica Pages
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English
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Travel guide to hotels,
tours, maps, weather and business in Costa Rica
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Google
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English &
Spanish
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Access to Costa Rica's
websites and Google's general database!
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Costa Rica Hotels
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English &
Spanish
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Tourist and Travel
Links
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LANIC
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English,
Spanish & Portuguese
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Costa Rica
directory
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TicoVista
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English
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Costa Rica search engine and
real estate directory
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dmoz
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French
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French Language sites about
Costa Rica
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Yahoo!
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German
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German Language sites about
Costa Rica
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Costa Rica Telecommunications
Market Overview & Statistics
Costa Rica
is served by a relatively modern telecom infrastructure and has
the second highest Internet penetration for Latin America after
Chile. Yet Costa Rica is the region’s least liberalised
telecom market. State-owned Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) and its subsidiary RACSA are the monopoly
providers of both fixed-line and mobile telephony, Internet and
data communications – in fact, of virtually all telecom
services except for pay TV. Although this situation worked in the
past, it is now leading to considerable problems, such as: long
waiting lists for phones (mobile lines completely ran dry in
December 2004); stifling of new technologies such as VoIP (which
threaten ICE’s hegemony); and difficulties in implementing
new convergence strategies. Get this report
here.
Telecommunications, Telecoms, Mobile and
Broadband in Central America
Central American countries are Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and Panama, all of which are small countries with generally low GDP per
capita but with considerable scope for development in all telecom sectors. This
annual report offers a wealth of information on the trends and developments in
fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony, Internet, broadband, digital TV, and
converging media including VoIP and IPTV developments. See the table of content and executive summary
here.
Costa Rica
Profile:
Country Profile by
the CIA
Costa Rica profile
by the BBC
Wikipedia information on
Costa Rica
Costa Rica News
Costa Rica
News
A.M. Costa Rica daily news source.
Tico Times Online
Costa Rica and Central America news
Info Costa
Rica
Costa Rica Information.
Procomer
PROCOMER Costa Rican Trade Promotion Agency (in Spanish).
Click on this link to see the latest Telecommunications
Market Reports for Central America. More statistics, figures and updates become available all the
time.
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