Television with flowers on line to heaven neighborhood houses - The Nation Costa Rica

completed his job behind the wheel of the taxi, Chaves Ponce returns home where he spends the night with his wife and daughter Zaida 11 years.

At home, in the precarious Martina Bustos, five kilometers north of Liberia, often seen with his family Discovery Channel documentary or a movie.

can do it because they have the satellite TV service company Sky, that allows you to dive into the plot Zaida foreign telenovelas in a pause of its domestic work and laugh with her daughter’s adventures Dora The Explorer and Phineas and Ferb ; their favorite programs

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Gomez also, although your home resolves cans zinc walls, windows without glass and gray metal roof antenna where stands that she and her son holds them together in the face sessions the luminous screen.

“Sometimes it’s difficult to pay and we have cut that one will not stop eating payable service. Of course, when it is, we took advantage, “said Zaida.

As never before, today’s houses in neighborhoods, slum and rural areas, taste the sweetness of international television.

This was prompted by the arrival of another company in the domestic market, which was just Sky, which cheapened the service.

“More low-income families today have access to international programming channels. Before it prevented the price or lack of terrestrial connection points in the cable television model, “said Walther Herrera, division of markets the Telecommunications (Sutel).

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Rise customers increased from 67,610 in the first quarter of 2012, to 116,371 in the second of 2013, a rise of 72% which represents 48,761 new subscribers in a year and a half, according to figures from Sutel.

The number grew strongly from 2013, when the company began offering course their packages.

“When we arrived, the penetration of television systems was only 40%, the rest of the country was neglected and in rural areas where cable companies did not sign then limited to growth physical coaxial cable, “said Rangel Carolina Sanchez, a spokeswoman for Clear.

The rural sector is also where most of Sky customers is based: 70% are located there, said Cinthia Gonzalez, administrative and financial manager

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In this communication, the signal of a direct satellite descends to an antenna on Earth. This allows the signal to spread large tracts of land, regardless of elevations there.

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When he got into the same Sky business, the company launched a package that costs $ 17 a month called VETV to compete on price with its new rival.

off signal. However, Gonzalez admitted that the bad weather interrupts the transmission itself (for a few minutes, he said) if the day is windy or heavy rain.

is the same in the case of course, confirmed some of its members.

“We have problems with the antenna if it gets cloudy or raining. The signal goes. Not good service but we are told that this is normal for the area, “complained yesterday Johana Mejias, a housewife, who lives in the town of Quepos Paquita with her husband and two children.

Their neighbors, also clients of course, but they coincide with the service. The charm lies in the company at the time of watching TV, outside the swing of the signal or the same schedule.

“Two months ago we put it and has been very helpful for my daughter for educational programs. At night, I like to come and sit her, my wife and I to do together, “said David Matarrita mechanic, another resident of Paquita, in Quepos. collaborated reporters. Wanda Vargas and Carlos Araya