Cell phones will be beeping across Costa Rica after midnight, as Ticos send more than 100 million "¡Feliz Año Nuevo!" text messages, according to Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE).

ICE services director Adolfo Arias told reporters SMS numbers late tonight will surpass those sent over Christmas Eve, which, in just six hours, hit 10 million.

During the Christmas holiday overall, ICE recorded 25 million messages.

Last New Year, from midnight to the wee hours of the morning of Jan. 1, 2008, Ticos sent 102 million cellular text messages.

The state telecoms agency said this year it has broadened its platform's capacity to 900 messages per second, twice last year's speed, to allow for more mobile season's greetings.