Offer international toll
free access numbers to your team members who travel abroad so they can easily connect to your global conference call meetings.
Host multi-country
conference calls.
Our conferencing bridge is located in the U.S. but the moderator can initiate a conference call from any country on the Toll Free list. top
For example, callers in the Costa Rica may worry about
the cost of a global conference call with a Costa Rican telephone number.
Likewise, callers in the United States may be less concerned about the actual costs but worried about how to dial
a different country code.
The easiest, and most affordable, way to hold international
conference calls in Costa Rica is to use a toll free international conference calling service provider.
We offer both toll free and local access numbers for Costa Rica and dozens of other countries - all at competitive
rates.
If you offer a toll free access number to the global conference, your participants will not pay for the call. Each
participant will be given a toll free number specific to their own countries.
From there, they simply dial toll free and join your international conference call in Costa Rica.
If you'd prefer not to pay for toll free access, you can also issue local numbers specific to each participants'
countries.
For example, USA callers could choose from New York, Los Angeles, and other USA numbers while callers in the Philippines
might dial a number that's local to Manilla.
Depending on their location relative to the local access number, they may or may not incur toll charges. However,
because the numbers are local to their countries, they should have an understanding about local tolls and expected
costs, if any.
By providing global conferencing access numbers specific to each country, you'll immediate overcome concerns about
dialing a foreign number. This puts participants at ease.
Meanwhile, crystal clear audio results from our PSTN telephone network and ensures call quality.
Our Costa Rica conference calling plans are available
on a pay-as-you-go basis with no contract, no penalties, no usage requirements, no monthly fees, and no risk.
Hold an international conference call today and experience a more affordable way to interact with friends, family,
and colleagues around the world.
About Costa Rica
The Republic of Costa Rica is a Central American nation
bordered by Nicaragua, Panama, the Pacific Ocean, and the Caribbean Sea.
Costa Rica rates highly in terms of human development, placing 62nd on the Human Development Index.
Costa Rica does even better in terms of environmental development, ranking fifth in the 2012 Environmental Performance
Index - and first in the Americas.
Other environmental accolades include "Greenest Country in the World" (NEF, 2009) and best performing
country in the Happy Planet Index (NEF, 2012).
Costa Rica was a Spanish colony for two and a half centuries. In 1821, the country claimed its independence and joined the United Provinces of Central America, a federation that later dissolved.
In 1838, Costa Rica became truly independent.
Spanish is the official language of Costa Rica and English is commonly spoken.
Costa Rica is politically stable with a high standard of living. The nation is making progress, but is still considered
a developing nation.
Though its poverty rate is lower than most Latin American countries, it remains about 23 percent. Unemployment
is estimated to be 7.8 percent as of 2012.
As of July 2014, the CIA World Factbook puts Costa Rica's population at 4,755,234. Tourism and ecotourism are its
biggest industries followed by cash crops of coffee, bananas, and pineapples.
Telecommunications and Costa Rica
The CIA World Factbook reports that Costa Rica had
1.018 million main phone lines in use in 2012 and 6.151 million mobile cellular subscribers.
Its telecommunications system is considered good as far as coverage goes.
Domestically, the telecommunications system in Costa Rica uses point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave,
fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link systems.
Internationally, Costa Rica is connected to South America, Central America, USA, and parts of the Caribbean via
submarine cables. It is also connected to the Central American Microwave System and has two satellite earth stations.
Costa Rica had 147,258 Internet hosts in 2012 and 1.485 million Internet users in 2009. Internet World Stats puts
Costa Rica's Internet users for 2014 at 4.02 million, which is about 84 percent of the population.
Costa Rica's Telecommunications Market
As part of the CAFTA-DR (Dominican Republic-Central
American FTA) free trade agreement, Costa Rica opened its telecommunications market to competition.
As with most nations that have opened telecommunications to competition, Costa Rica's residents have benefited.
The sector has grown considerably.
Many telephone consumers have moved
from fixed line telephone service to VoIP and mobile cellular phones due to cost advantages and better choices.
The mobile market only recently became liberalized (late 2011). It didn't take long for new entrants, Movistar
and Claro, to gain market share. By 2013, state-owned ICE had 65 percent of the mobile market with Movistar and
Claro making up the remaining 35 percent.
In mid-2015, fixed number portability is expected to become available in Costa Rica. This is likely to continue
the shift away from fixed lines to mobile cellular and VoIP.
The major fixed line service provider in Costa Rica
remains state-owned ICE.
Costa Rica has the most developed broadband market in Central America. However, it's not
quite as developed as some markets in South America such as Argentina, Chile, or Uruguay. In early 2013, most Internet
users (about 67 percent) used mobile Internet access in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica's telecommunications sector
is subject to the General Telecommunications Law (GTL) enacted in 2008. It is regulated by the Superintendence
of Telecommunications (SUTEL) and the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Telecommunications (MICITT).
Though some governmental changes were made in 2014, the general regulatory structure remains largely the same in
this sector.
You can now have 'toll free'
multi-country conference calls from the following countries:
Antigua, Argentina,
Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Chile, China,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico,
Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, South Africa,
Spain, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Tobago, UAE, UK,
Uruguay and Venezuela.
Major Costa Rica Export Partners
As an option, the Costa Rica conference call moderator
can request the dial-out feature and bring attendees into the Costa Rica conference call located in San José,
Alajuela, Cartago, Dominical, Heredia, Liberia, Puerto Limón, Puntarenas, Quesada or any other city in Costa
Rica.
Any other Costa Rican
city that can access the supplied in-country toll-free Costa Rica access number can join the call.
Partial List of Major U.S. Investors
in Costa Rica:
Abbot
Aegis
Baxter
Boston Scientific
Chiquita
Citibank
Conair
Del Monte
Emerson Electric
General MicroCircuits
Hewlett-Packard
Hospira
IBM
Intel
Kimberly-Clark
McDonalds
Merck
Microvention
National Instruments
Pfizer
Price Smart
Procter and Gamble
Scott Paper
Standard Fruit Company (Dole)
Star Tek
St. Jude Medical
Sykes
Vanity Fair
Wal-Mart
Western Union
Costa Rica Conference Call Enables Global
Collaboration with Participants in Any Country.
Attend or conduct a conference call from Costa Rica using the supplied Costa Rican Toll Free
number.
You can be located in Costa Rica as an
attendee or the chairperson.
To use this service, the global conference call moderator or attendee
in Costa Rica would simply dial the included Costa Rican Toll Free number or local San Jose number.
Pay for Usage Only
No monthly fees of any kind
No contract
High Quality PSTN Global Network
Business Class Features
24/7 operator assistance
Costa Rica toll-free access number is sent to you immediately upon account activation
Conference call participants located in Costa Rica can utilize the
Costa Rica toll free access number from their landlines or mobile phones.
Free MP3 recording makes it
convenient to retain audio files of international conference calls.
Conduct a Conference Call
with Any of These Countries
Costa Rica Conference Call|Use Case
Though the telecommunications market is now open and
has changed dramatically in recent years, holding international conference calls in Costa
Rica can cause some confusion and challenges. Problems with holding global calls in any country include concerns
about international calling costs and different dialing conventions.
Costa Rica international conference calling by anyone located in Costa Rica is accomplished using a local Toll
Free number in Costa Rica.
For instance, conference
call participants located in Costa Rica can join a conference call with the IT team in India along with your sales
VP in New York and your associates in Hong Kong, all on the same call.
As an option, the Costa Rica teleconference
call moderator can use the dial-out feature and add more attendees into the Costa Rica conference call located
in San José, Alajuela, Cartago, Dominical, Heredia, Liberia, Puerto Limón, Puntarenas, Quesada or
any other city in Costa Rica.
If your have a participant
located in a country that is not listed, that participant can still access
your conference call using our local U.S. bridge number (provided upon account activation). Or, the moderator can
use our dial-out feature to bring the participant in to the conference call.