Phone and internet is fine and dandy in SJ? That's been my experience.
So, Scores not answering email requests for avails 2+ days is on them. Also, I called both their numbers last night at 8:30 and got a recorded message on their US area code MagicJack number and no answer at their CR #. The bloom is off the rose. To them, Email=gringos. I hope they do well with their new target.
But, out in the CR boonies, internet and cell is a different story even with the best phones. I think you saw a few months ago the CR govt overseeing agency (Sutel?) fined one of the carriers--I think Kolbi--for not delivering 3g like it claimed to certain areas.
Quepos is fine. Go to the nearby beach at Manuel Antonio eg, on the beach itself no problem, assuming you have a 3g phone, any phone earlier, completely forget about it. But up on the road depending where in MA you are, you can be standing or driving in one spot and get no bars. Move 100 feet, 3 bars. Common knowledge. It's up against a small mountain range. In Naranjito, 10 km east of Quepos, OK to very good. In Londres, 5 clicks further east but closer to the western slope of the major CR mountain range, good luck. People at times standing on their roofs to catch a little from Quepos.
And not limited to that area. Parts of Guanacaste the same.
http://news.co.cr/sutel-promises-better ... ies/30455/Don't mean to dump on CR. At my weekend place in the states, 0 bars inside the house, 1-2 bar outside after 5 minutes even though the ATT coverage map says I should get full coverage. Same for the few neighbors I have within a mile. We're roughly 2 miles from a major interstate which are target areas for cell providers. They are offering me a booster to hook into my non ATT wireless internet modem for $99 on 2 year contract. Yep, they want me to pay them to use my internet to deliver what they advertise I should be getting. But not just an ATT problem. Same with any other carrier at my location. I have to call forward my cell to my hard line at the farm when I get off the interstate.
The point is you can have 5g, but that doesn't do squat if you are in a "dimple"--radio engineers term for a hard to penetrate area--I'm heavily wooded in a hilly area. I don't know what the term is for if they deliberately don't try to cover an area.
So even when I am in the city, I presume that's why I sometimes don't get CR emails or why my foto's don't go thru (and vice versa) to/from rural CR, and very often cannot connect via telephone--either a straight busy signal or a computer message that says the country you are trying to reach is unavailable, or it goes straight to their voicemail, sometimes for 2-3 days. And that goes for both my cheapie MagicJack system or my major carrier landline. I am in one of those modes right now--3 days now straight to voicemail to 4 different rural CR people all of whom have 3g phones. Quepos? I always get thru to a landline or cell.