WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 80 / 356
• The news
- Racsa negotiates with rural cooperatives to extend Internet service will
expand by mains
http://www.larepublica.net/_vernoticia.aspx?idart=28583
Jan/06
In a matter of a month, the students of the school Esquivel Ascent in Carthage will be able to
have access to Internet with only connecting their computers to a power outlet.
The administrators of this educative center, as well as of several public organizations, will
not occupy to divide the telephone line nor to pay a subscription to companies of television
by cable, to place antennas either to receive a satellite signal of microwaves or.
Power Line Communications (PLC) who allows to connect the computer to a special modem
and this a any power outlet, so that the access to the network is offered through electrical
system.
Carthage will be the first population center that will prove east system the next month, in
schools like the Jesus Jiménez and the Esquivel Ascent, the Hospital Max Peralta, the Red
Cross and the Technological Institute, soon to extend it to other sites public, residential and
companies, according to confirmed Mario Jiménez, representative of the Together
Administrator of Services Public of Carthage (Jasec).
“We are going to take the plan in a month with tests to low tension and soon we will raise
medium tension in places like the Technological one, which we want is that the client has
several options of connection so that she chooses”, she adduced Jiménez.
The low and average tension depends on the type of electrical connection that has each
place and of its level of consumption, for that reason is necessary to adapt the equipment for
each case. Nevertheless, this mechanism would be used to expand the accesses to Internet
in other zones of the country.
Luis Carlos Rosales, representative of the company PLC – that works in alliance with Jasec-
commented that already negotiations with some rural cooperatives, specially with
Coopealfaro have taken place, in Alfaro Ruiz.