Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have the most developed infrastructures but still lag well behind North America and Europe. Mexico has one PC for every 50 people. Onoly half of all Brazilian homes have telephones.
Ready for wire. Coaxial cable passes by more than 80 percent of American homes, 95 percent of Canadian.
Deregulation is bringing energetic new competitors into telecommunications and cable TV. In both Germany and Britain, more than a fourth of all homes are PC-equipped.
Australia has the largest per capita installed base of PCs– one for every five people, compared with one for every 20 Japanese. But cable TV and mutimedia are catching on in Japan.
South Africa alone on the continent has the telecommunications capacity to build high-speed networks soon. In the Mideast, Israeli technology is well ahead.
India’s industrial base and large middle class make it a natural candidate for technological advance, but the government has only begun to deregulate a creaky telecommunications infrastructure.
