Costa Rica Ranked With One Of The Worst Internet Connections In The World

Costa Rica Ranked With One Of The Worst Internet Connections In The World

Costa Rica first launched the internet in 1993 and was initially ranked as one of the leaders in Latin America to now one of the worst in the world, so what has gone wrong?

South Korea has an impressive lead in the world´s mobile networks with whopping speeds of 43.3 megabits per second (Mpbs), whilst Costa Rica flags dismally behind with a meager average of 2.5 Mpbs.  Claro appears to be the best of the three main servers, but with most Latin American countries having speeds of between 6.1 and 9.1, Costa Rica has gone from having the best internet broadband connection to ranking bottom of the league table.

This inevitably incurs huge disadvantages to the development of Costa Rica with its competitiveness.  Rosalia Morales, executive director of NIC states quite emphatically what´s important here, “the Internet is an essential service for the growth of industry, education and health system. With so little competitive Internet connections, the country risks delaying economic growth and human development”.

She went onto explain, “Costa Rica has a high penetration of mobile internet but little fixed internet”.   With such an imbalance, the mobile internet is now saturated, which in turn offers such poor quality in connections.  This disparity needs to be addressed before Costa Rica stands any chance of rising out of the bottom as the world´s worst performers.  With its unimpressive figures comparative only to undeveloped countries, Costa Rica has some way to go, or risk being left behind all-together.

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