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Costa Rica
Internet usage, broadband and telecommunications reports

Internet Usage Statistics:
1,214,400 Internet users as of August, 2007;
27.0% of the population, according to ITU.




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:
4,504,013 population for 2007, according to world-gazetteer.

Latest Country GNI Estimate:
GNI per capita was US$ 4,670 for 2004, according to the World Bank.

Country Area (Size):
51,090 sq km - Population density: 85 persons per sq km

Internet Usage and Population Growth:

YEAR

Users

Population

% Pen.

Usage Source

2000

250,000

3,693,800

6.8 %

ITU

2003

800,000

4,267,000

18.7 %

ITU

2005

1,000,000

4,301,172

23.2 %

ITU

2007

1,214,400

4,504,013

27.0 %

ITU



Costa Rica Search Engines:

Name

Language

Description

BRUNCAS

English

Yellow Pages, White Pages, Industrial and Real Estate Directory

Costa Rica Click

English

Costa Rica directory

Costa Rica Pages

English

Travel guide to hotels, tours, maps, weather and business in Costa Rica

Google

English & Spanish

Access to Costa Rica's websites and Google's general database!

Guias Costa Rica

English & Spanish

Tourist and Travel Links

LANIC

English, Spanish & Portuguese

Costa Rica directory

TicoVista

English

Costa Rica search engine and real estate directory

dmoz

French

French Language sites about Costa Rica

Yahoo!

German

German Language sites about Costa Rica



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.

Costa Rica Profile:

Country Profile by the CIA

Costa Rica profile by the BBC

Wikipedia information on Costa Rica




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