Uruguay leads in 4G and LTE in Latin America – Catholic Newspaper (Venezuela)

54.4% of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean used internet in 2015, 20 percentage points more in 2010, “what gives account of the major advances in the access to the service and its affordability registered in the region in the last five years,” reports the document.

The second meeting of the Conference of Science, Innovation and ICT, organized by Eclac and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Costa Rica, with the support of the German Cooperation (GIZ) and the European Commission, will conclude tomorrow.

In the past five years, the percentage of households that have internet access grew by 14.1%, reaching a total of 43.4 per cent in 2015, according to the ECLAC.

Of the 24 countries analyzed, three had a penetration less than 15 per cent in 2015, 15 were between 15 and 45 percent (including Mexico), three between 45 and 56 percent, and three (Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay) were close to 60 per cent.

A key part of the expansion of the internet access in the past is explained by the increase of the penetration of the broadband mobile, who gave a jump of 7% to 58% of the population, driven by a reduction in the price and by the diversity of the services offered.

there Is also a difference of up to 41 percentage points in the internet penetration between the urban area and the rural in the country with the largest gap in the region.

Fourteen of the countries reviewed have within its policies of current Government to improve the infrastructure that enables connectivity as one of the main guidelines of the topic of Internet, but once this is achieved, it does not seem to have a set course in the most of them.

he Detailed in his report that in 2010, the percentage of people with access to broadband fixed (BAF) and broadband mobile (BAM) was virtually the same.

The report makes a review of the quality of the connection of internet, which is measured in Mbps on both connections, fixed and mobile.

Despite this growth in quantitative terms, the document indicates that there are persistent problems with the quality (speed of connection), and the equity in the Internet access (differences according to the geographical location and the socio-economic situation of the population).

The difference between the countries with the highest and lowest percentage of connected households was 46.2 per cent in 2015, while in the countries of the OECD was of 30.7%.

So, while six years ago set aside 18 percent of the monthly income to the purchase of broadband, currently only accurate to 2 per cent of the family money, since all the countries have reduced the costs of connection.

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Bolivia countries are those with higher growth in this period, due to the low phase-out costs for access to Internet. Only three countries (Uruguay, Peru and Chile) exceed the world average of 8.5 Mps.

“In the more advanced countries in the field, such as the Republic of Korea and Norway, the figures exceed 50% of connections above 15 Mbps,” the report said.