Gilat Satellite Networks has announced the Company has received new orders from Costa Rica’s national telecommunications operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), for the deployment of Gilat's VSAT platforms to provide broadband services to approximately 1,000 new sites.

For Costa Rica's corporate sector, Gilat will provide a new SkyEdge II broadband satellite network, to the country's state-owned Internet operator, Radiografica Costarricense, (RACSA), a subsidiary of ICE, to serve 500 corporate and financial customers. ICE is also expanding its existing SkyEdge network to provide internet access and toll-quality telephony to an additional 500 rural locations, meeting its Universal Service Obligations.