Deputies aim to eliminate the secrecy in the electrical business of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute, ICE. This has a monopoly on the electricity business and has been covered in…
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Costa Rica’s ICE & Its Improper Business Practices
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/03/11ICE has the right to conceal certain information related to its telecommunications business because there is competition, however, it concealed public information from the electricity sector and Sala IV condemned…
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Costa Rica’s ICE Passing Its Inability to Run a Business Onto Electricity Consumers
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/01/03We all know the tales of ICE, Costa Rica’s Electricity monopoly. Their inability to run a business and continual losses are well documented. Now here is the fun part…..their losses…
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How Can ICE in Costa Rica Post a Loss with No Competition?
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2018/11/07Costa Rica News – ICE has publicly admitted having its numbers in red. The forecasted loss this year is ¢314,000 million. This is due mainly to two problems, the impact of…
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Costa Rica Telecommunications Market Up 4% As ICE Loses Ground
by admin 2018/01/13Costa Rica News – Costa Rica’s telecommunications sector posted revenues amounting to ¢394 billion colones (around US$693 million dollars) in the first half of 2017.
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Costa Rica Business; Monopolies & Competition
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2017/10/04Costa Rica News – The control of monopolies will complicate the process for Costa Rica to join the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Should Costa Rica’s RECOPE, ICE and UCR Be Dismantled?
by admin 2016/06/19Costa Rica News – Until RECOPE, ICE and other government controlled and run entities in Costa Rica are broken apart or if competition is allowed Costa Rica will continue its…
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Why Are Electricity Rates So High in Costa Rica? Act 7200
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2014/12/17Costa Rica News – Most of us that live in the land of “Pura Vida” have just grown accustomed to paying astronomical gasoline prices and fairly high electricity prices. It…
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