Cell phone companies in Costa Rica

The country has 4.404 million subscribers in total of (February 2012) and (with 4.3 million people) there's about 1 mobile lines for every citizen. (101.11% penetration rate)

Until 2011, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad had a monopoly on wireless communications. In november, 2011, after the market was open as required by DR-CAFTA, Claro and Movistar started service. [35] [36]

The country's telecom regulator is SUTEL (Spanish) [37]

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Kölbi [38]	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA	4.000	Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
	movistar [39]	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA	0.150	Telefónica
	Claro [40]	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA	0.154	América Móvil
	Tuyo Móvil [41] •MVNO using Kölbi	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA	0.100	Televisora de Costa Rica S.A.
	Fullmóvil [42] •MVNO using Kölbi	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA	Not Yet Available	Virtualis [43]

Source: Wikipedia

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