At the end of August, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology, and Telecommunications (Micitt) issued the Regulation on Cybersecurity Measures Applicable to Telecommunication Services Based on Fifth-Generation Mobile Technology and Beyond. The regulation included a measure that caught attention: all providers wishing to participate in the bidding for the deployment of this technology in Costa Rica had to originate from countries that are signatories to the Budapest Convention. This excluded China, whose company Huawei expressed interest in participating in the project.