Advanced internet connections may change Tico networking habits with permanent,
high-speed connectivity for your home.

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As from this week, thousands of Costa Ricans are able to connect to the rest of
world from their homes or offices using broadband connections that were unimaginable a few years ago.

With the Advanced Internet Network, Costa Rica hopes to improve its world ranking for network access both in connection quantity and quality.

The Costa Rica Electricity Institute (ICE) officially launched the service Monday (13 June, 2005) using video-conferencing, one of the many applications that could become a daily communication option for Costa Ricans once they embrace this technology.

ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines) is a broadband connection technology
using normal telephone lines to transmit data at high speed. Users have access
to latest generation applications such as video conferencing, tele-medicine and
tele-education – it will be possible to take complete courses over the net and
interact with other students.

Being asymmetric, with different frequencies, reception speeds are greater than
the channel transmitting giving better net-user speeds.

Getting the network in place has taken several years and it will initially be
available to high-density areas in seven provinces in the country. Not all the
numbers are working yet and during this first phase, over 74,000 connections have been created that will rise to 100,000 from early next year.