IT, media and telecommunications in Latin America
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- Fiber Optics Network to Link Latin
America
- By Tito Drago, IPS, 12 May 1999. ‘Telefonica
Internacional de Espana’—the largest
telecommunications company in Spain and Latin
America—and a U.S. firm plan to invest 900 million
dollars to install a submarine fiber optics network
linking all countries of Latin America, with connections
in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
- Eight billion dollars generated by Internet
in Latin America
- By Lilliam Riera, Granma International
Havana, 27 October 1999. Contribution of information
technology to the widening gap bewteen the rich and poor,
North and South.