[APCPress] Internet in the Andes: New APC research

[Karen Higgs]

Internet in the Andes: New APC research

In the 1990s, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela privatised 
their telecomms sectors and the policies were a dismal failure. Almost 
20 years on the Andean region has some of the worst connectivity 
statistics of all Latin America. For example only 4 in 100 Bolivians 
have internet access. Of the four, two will have broadband connections 
but out-of-date telephone systems will force the other two to use 
dial-up so slow that viewing YouTube or interactive news sites will be 
virtually impossible. From 2008 APC has looked at what had gone wrong. 
Our detailed national reports produced with an eye on influencing the 
policy debate in Latin America are now collected along with summaries of 
main points to emerge from the research.

http://www.apc.org/en/node/8929/
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