Since its inception in 1999, Amnet, as it is now known, is really a company established itself as a viable cable plan to Central America. Today, since 2004 Amnet Costa Rica offers Online business connections and data transmission and in 2005 started to offer both residential and business phone services. However, it’s worth mentioning that there are several cases in which the systems fail, so there is a constant upgrading from the operations which help the nets to go as smoothly as possible. For example, captured, the Amnet Costa Rica left without Online sites and cable TV for almost per week to the Central and Union counties in the province of Cartago, because of the rupture of the fiber optic cable.
This year, Amnet Costa Rica took away basic TV packages, which generated a serious discontent one of the most of its customers. The amount of discomfort was so drastic that even many devoted customers to express their complaints through various media including social networking. Moreover, private telecommunications companies reported obstacles to interface with the ICE Costa Rica Internet which prevents them from selling their services to the public. The businesses, mostly thinking about providing Internet telephony, reason that ICE Costa Rica Internet hasn’t set the rates charged for network interconnection and lacks clarity in defining the conditions of the contract.
The ICE Costa Rica Internet on the other hand, attributes part of the responsibility to the private companies simply because they haven`t yet established the methodology on calculating interconnection charges between operators. In addition, the interconnection towards the fixed public telephone networks, cellular and Internet is running through significant obstacles because there are no fees to set interconnection rates. Because of the misunderstanding in the system the brand new telecoms operators who want to buy these services from Amnet Costa Rica will eventually pay great money to Amnet Costa Rica to use their infrastructure to bring the service to its customers. Similarly, when users make use of the ICE Costa Rica Internet, for examples, they will have to pay for it.
Furthermore, there are persistent flaws within the system utilized by ICE Costa Rica Internet to promote new telephone and internet services affecting customer support. Amnet Costa Rica has issued the Voice over ip (VoIP) that is one of the latest technologies in the world. VoIP is a technique to make the analog voice signal, converting it into digital signal and transmit it to the Internet connections. This in turn allows users to make Internet phone calls without going through the phone company service.
Because the technology is now increasingly reliable while offering reduced prices, has gained great popularity for very long transfer distance voice services over traditional long distance analog. Some even see VoIP because the revolutionary technology that will replace the traditional phone systems entirely. Servicios VoIP phone calls is performed in three stages: coding of the analog voice signal (caller’s voice) into digital signal, transmitting the digital signal (data packet) through the Internet to the individual who answers the call, and decode digital signal into analog voice signal to the receiver side.