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According to the Broadband Barometer conducted by Cisco Systems, headquartered in San Jose (California, USA) and currently the world leader in networking for the Internet, Uruguay is the Latin American country that gets a higher percentage of penentración broadband in the region.

The Cisco Broadband Barometer, which measures the growth of broadband in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Uruguay, said that if the penetration is at 22.4 connections per 100 inhabitants in Uruguay when taking into account the Ceibal impact, socio-educational project in Uruguay. It was created by decree of April 18, 2007 “to conduct studies, assessments and actions needed to provide a laptop to every school child and every public school teacher, and to train teachers in the Using this tool, and promote the development of educational proposals in line with them. “

Juan Uranga, Cisco’s regional manager, attributes the increased availability of connectivity, faster, more affordable items and penetration geographically and the most obvious causes that explain a higher rate of broadband penetration in Latin America.

Sharp rise in mobile broadband in 2010

Just Uruguay experienced an increase during the last year of 132.7% of mobile broadband subscriptions reaching 337,000. The study notes that are the inland areas of Uruguay, 52% of connections, where the greatest number of subscriptions is mobile broadband. The Broadband Barometer conducted by Cisco Systems also shows the percentages of growth of mobile broadband in 2010 on the inside and the metropolitan areas of Uruguay, 33.6% and 20.7% respectively.

Antel doubled the bandwidth

Antel, top telecommunications regulatory body in Uruguay, doubled this year 2011, the minimum speed of bandwidth currently is 1 mega, excluding the universal service households have a download speed of 512 kilobits per second and has 6%, some 400,000, of the connections reaching the 25,000 subscriptions.

Regional manager for Cisco to improve the speed and price of the connections are the great challenges that lie ahead for information technology and communication technology (ICT) in Uruguay.