Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Costa Rican telco ICE has signed a contract worth US$ 16.2mn with Teledata Networks under which the latter will provide its BroadAccess-1000E Multiservice Access Gateways, supporting the telco’s plans to deliver triple-play services in Costa Rica.
The project is intended to enable ICE to transform its current network to an IP-based next-generation network (NGN) architecture, and hundreds of BroadAccess-1000E systems are to be deployed across Costa Rica, installed within a fibre-to-the-remote (FTTR) architecture within hardened street cabinets.
“We are proud to be selected by ICE for this important project and to take part in their progress towards a new era of NGN,” said Mauricio Tepper, Associate Vice-President of Sales at Teledata Networks.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
The president of a top Costa Rican soccer team was killed by gunmen on a motorcycle as he was driving his car.
Attorney General Francisco Dall’Anese said Monday’s attack on Adrian Castro may have been a revenge killing. He gave no other details Tuesday.
There was no evidence the 50-year-old team president was targeted because of his connection to the first-division club Puntarenas, which was leading Group A in the Costa Rican league.
The businessman had ties to at least 32 other companies, from real estate to ranching. He was jailed on fraud allegations in 2000 but was freed in a deal with prosecutors.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Starting next week, it will be easier for women who have had abortions to seek forgiveness from the Catholic Church.
From Feb. 25 to April 19, one week after Easter, the 300 priests in the archdiocese of San José will have the power to forgive women who confess to having had abortions. Normally, only the country’s eight bishops have that authority.
The policy aims to accommodate an annual spike in the number of people who confess during these months, as they prepare to celebrate the death and the resurrection of Christ.
We invite all believers to reestablish their relationship with the Lord, who wants all of us to achieve salvation, said Mario Segura Bonilla, spokesman for the San José archdiocese.
The other eight dioceses throughout the country will likely implement a similar policy, as they have in previous years, said archdiocese press officer Germán Salas.
Abortion is illegal in Costa Rica except when the mother’s life is seriously at risk. About 27,000 illegal abortions are performed here every year, according to the Costa Rican Demographic Association.
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