History of RACSA’s Internet service  
in Costa Rica

The beginnings

To extend the technological and information possibilities between the companies, facilitate the access and enable the fast updated information exchange, Radiográfica Costarricense, S.A. (RACSA) inaugurated on April, 1994 the Internet service in business terms in the country.

After the analysis of procedures, duties assignment, users’ profiles, description and development of services to set in operation the Internet service, millions of dollars were invested on equipment installation, routers, communications servers, international channels and commuted accesses.

10 years ago a new challenge to RACSA began aiming at introducing a service made for a very particular market regarding the other services that the company had implemented up to then, due to which the potential market was not the corporate sector –to which RACSA had addressed, in general terms- but also the personal and residential sector, since it was known that this would also have a wide demand for this new service.

Development

From the beginning of its operation to date, the Internet service growth in Costa Rica has experienced a constant growth of over 10% yearly.

Among Internet’s most relevant strengths are its worldwide coverage and its capacity to allow global interaction between different computers through a common language.

The abovementioned allows the interested party to establish contact with different people at a worldwide level, facilitating the information or services providers to reach an immediate market penetration towards potential customers and a dynamic and economic access to millions of graphical information servers (WWW) throughout the world. All this carried out in a dynamic and economic fashion.

The services mostly used by the customers within Internet are the email and access to graphical information servers (WWW), due to the reason that theses services respond to the people’s needs in searching information for decision making, research of different subjects or simply entertainment.

Given that at RACSA we are clear about what are this phenomena’s implications, we are continually developing projects associated to Internet that enable the customers have value added services, in order to along with information providing companies, develop solutions accordant to the needs of the country’s productive sectors, as well as to the residential sector’s interest, while we promote the development of value added services on the Internet.

The abovementioned fact since Internet is constituting in a wide communications network oriented to the multi-means application development, offering the content providers new options of offering to the Costa Rican and worldwide market different services with a tendency to improve the quality of life.

Within this scenario, RACSA is clear in its mission of being the technological bridge responding for these content providers to be closet o their customers, due to which aware of this responsibility, we have a solid plan aiming to develop this network at a national and international level. }

Statistics

Internet’s growth rhythm, both residential and corporate, is shown by the following statistics, clicking here

The Internet service experiences a continued renewal process, which entails constant promoting of new services on behalf of RACSA. More information here