This report was published at ECLAC.org in October 17, 2011. This is a summary and the title is above.
Today, the first school for broadband policymakers organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC) with the support of World bank was inaugurated in Santiago - Chile.
¨We hope that this will help the process of regional and independent market, which contributes to expanding information and communication technologies (ICT)¨, said the executive secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado.
The objective is to create a space for debate between the public, academic and private sectors, to analyse issues relating to the massification of this services in L.A. and C.
Some of the speakers for broadband policymakers include renowned experts such as Paulo Lopes from European Union, who presented experiences of policies.
The service charge is almost five times higher than the average recorded in the countries of the OECD. The countries of South America also showed an improvement in broadband access speed. The uplink speed increased by 64% between January 2010 and August 2011, while the downlink speed increased by 75%. However, this is not enough, in Europe the uplink speed is almost four times greater, while the downlink speed is three times greater.
