Paper : Estimating Broadband Demand and its Economic Impact in Latin America

This paper estimates the demand for broadband technology in Latin America and quantifies the macroeconomic impact of broadband technology on employment and productivity While the total number of broadband access lines is 26.8 million and has increased 38 in the last year the region still needs to grow the number of lines by 41 adding 11 million lines to respond to the needs of the economy If that were to be achieved it is estimated that the deployment could result in at least 378,000 new jobs