Sunday, October 03, 2010

Costa Rica - The constitutional court has declared Internet access a right and the government had failed end the monopoly as required by CAFTA

[techno llama] the Costa Rican constitutional court (Sala IV) has declared that the Internet is a fundamental right in ruling 2010-012790. The case is actually a seemingly straightforward recurso the amparo (literally, writ of shelter, a measure against administrative abuses) which asks the Court to declare that the Costa Rican government has been late in some of the obligations arising from the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Under CAFTA, Costa Rica was under the obligation to break its telecommunications monopoly and to open up the mobile phone spectrum to third parties. The process was late, so the claimants asked for the government to be brought to heel, and requested that telecommunications regulators should open the mobile spectrum as soon as possible.

Costa Rican court declares the Internet as a fundamental right
see also Judgement of the Constitutional Court

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