With 3.6 million in Argentina, which means an increase of 26.9% year-product of a rise of 21% for fixed connections and 134% in the mobile internet
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“A 10% growth in internet connections high speed translates into a 1.3% increase in U.S. economic growth year-over-year increase of real GDP per capita,” noted Cisco’s regional director for the Southern Cone, Argentina’s Juan Pablo Estevez.
This estimate belongs to the World Bank and, for Estevez, “confirms the importance of promoting broadband, which is an investment that directly impacts the productivity of a nation.”
According to the report, in the first half of this year totaled 186 thousand broadband and 127 thousand connections fixed phones, “in a world economic crisis,” he said.
The segment of high-speed internet in all its technologies (ADSL, cable modem, satellite, wireless, etc.), is the only telecommunications sector has always had positive increases in number of users, even during the crisis of 2001/02 .
In the local market, the residential market accounts for 94% of the connections while 6% are employed by companies, so the 12 million households considered by the INDEC, about 3 million (28.4%) have internet access with broadband technology.
Argentine Internet users are characterized by strong applicants and have forced technology companies to offer high-speed access.
Thus, 35% of the connections of the installed broadband accounts in Argentina is 3 mbps.
This level of speed corresponds to the increase in demand for applications such as Web 2.0, computing “cloud”, video and social networks that generated a substantial change in the use of the network, the participation of users who upload and lower information and data while generating new scenarios for discussion, dialogue and reunion.