Research and Markets: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico Recorded Impressive Broadband Growth Over Past Year, But Is This Set to Continue?

Dublin (PRWEB) May 23, 2005

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c17749) has announced the addition of Latin America Broadband to their offering.

A relatively stable economic environment has helped get the Latin American broadband marketplace on track. Argentina, Brazil and Mexico recorded impressive broadband growth over the past year, while Chile leads the region in broadband penetration—all good news for broadband equipment and service providers.

Attention: ISPs, Telecom and IT Equipment Manufacturers, Global 2000 Companies, E-Retailers, Video, Music and Game Producers, Marketers and Advertisers.

The Latin America Broadband report explores why the broadband markets of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico are growing, why ADSL has become more widespread and affordable and why bandwidth offers are beginning to increase from a typical connection of 256Kbps to 512Kbps or more. In other words, why broadband markets in Latin America, like the rest of the world, are picking up speed.

While the availability and adoption of broadband in Latin American is still well behind North America, Western Europe and much of the Asia-Pacific region, many factors now suggest that the Latin American Internet sector is on a path of stable and continued growth. Unfortunately, history would suggest that this projection might be a tad rash.

With the economic downturn in Latin America between 2001 and 2003 there was a corresponding downturn in research coverage of the region, particularly from local Latin American research firms. This fact, combined with the economic volatility over the last few years, has made forecasting for the region, even two years out, perilous at best. eMarketer has therefore taken a relatively conservative approach to its forecasts in this report and attempted to provide alternative perspectives wherever possible.

Key questions the Latin America Broadband report addresses:

Why is the region lagging behind the rest of the world in broadband development?

What were the major causes of the downturns in 2001 and 2003?

Does 2004 mark the start of prolonged broadband growth in Latin America?

What is proving to be the dominant technology platform, DSL or cable Internet?

Who are the leading broadband access providers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico?

How do broadband prices compare among the leading countries in the region?

What does the future hold?

And many more…

The Latin America Broadband report aggregates the latest data from leading researchers—EIU, Internet World Stats, ITU, Point Topic, PricewaterhouseCoppers, Pyramid Research and many others—with eMarketer’s objective, unbiased analysis to give you the information you need to make well-informed business decisions on the Latin American broadband market.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c17749

Laura Wood

Senior Manager

Research and Markets

press@researchandmarkets.com

Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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Research and Markets: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico Recorded Impressive Broadband Growth Over Past Year, But Is This Set to Continue?

Coalition Against Terrorist Media Removes Hezbollahs Al-Manar Television from American Markets

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) January 1, 2006

The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) today praised satellite company Hispamar for removing the terrorist group Hezbollahs al-Manar television station from broadcast into North and South America. This marks the second time that CATM has taken al-Manar off the airwaves in the United States and throughout the Americas.

Al-Manar runs graphic videos encouraging viewers, even children, to become suicide bombers and calls for acts of terrorism against civilians, said Mark Dubowitz, COO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which organized CATM. Al-Manar is an operational weapon in the hands of one of the worlds most dangerous terrorist organizations.

We applaud Hispamar for quickly ending al-Manar broadcasts over its Amazonas satellite after we alerted them to its incitement to violence and support for terrorism, Dubowitz continued. By removing al-Manar, Hispamar is ending a very real threat. Hezbollah is known to have terror cells in more than 14 major American cities. It conducts illegal operations, including drug smuggling, throughout the Americas. And it demonstrated its ability and willingness to strike on this side of the Atlantic when its terrorists killed more than 100 innocent civilians in two bombings in Argentina.

With Hispamars decision, CATM and its allies have now been instrumental in removing al-Manar from eight satellites around the world, including two other satellites broadcasting into the United States and Latin America.

In December 2004, at CATMs urging, the U.S. State Department designated al-Manar as a terrorist organization. The same day, the Intelsat satellite company dropped al-Manar from broadcast in the United States and Canada.

On June 23, 2005, following intensive consultations with CATM and its allies, the government of Spain issued a press release denouncing al-Manars terrorist messages and removed al-Manar from broadcast over Hispasat, which reached all of Latin America.

Hispamar is a Brazilian company and branch of Hispasat. Its Amazonas satellite had broadcast al-Manar until being alerted by CATM about the stations support for terrorism.

Al-Manar is still broadcast to the Middle East, Europe and North Africa by Nilesat, whose major shareholder is the government of Egypt, and Arabsat, which is owned in part by the government of Saudi Arabia. Al-Manar’s broadcasts include commercials glorifying suicide bombers and encouraging others to join their ranks; viciously anti-American and anti-Semitic material, including the infamous and false blood libel depicting Jews killing a child to make Passover Matzah; and music videos calling for suicide bombers to attack coalition soldiers in Iraq.

CATM is a project of the non-partisan Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (http://www.defenddemocracy.org), a policy institute that focuses on defeating terrorism and promoting democracy.

For more information on al-Manar and CATMs efforts to remove it from worldwide broadcast, please visit http://www.stopterroristmedia.org.

Contact:

Bill McCarthy

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

(202) 207-0183

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