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Argentina's Internet Penetration is Twice as High as the World Average.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/532fce/argentina_conver) has announced the addition of the "Argentina - Convergence Broadband and Internet Market" report to their offering.

Argentina's Internet penetration is twice as high as the world average - yet less than half compared with countries such as Norway and the Netherlands. The broadband market is one of the most developed in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , with penetration only second to Chile's. ADSL See DSL.

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
 has consolidated its leadership, overtaking cable modem cable modem

Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet.
, which used to be the main broadband technology. Three broadband players (Telefonica de Argentina, Telecom Argentina, and Grupo Clarin) compete neck-a-neck for market share. Broadcasting and media convergence suffer from regulatory battles involving the government, pay TV companies, and telecom operators. This report provides an overview of Argentina's Internet, broadband, and broadcasting market, accompanied by relevant statistics and analyses.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Synopsis

2. Internet market

2.1 Overview

2.1.1 Internet statistics

3. Broadband market

3.1 Overview

3.1.1 Broadband statistics

3.1.2 Broadband players

3.2 Cable modems

3.3 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line See DSL.

(communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and
 (ADSL)

3.4 Wireless broadband

3.4.1 WiFi

3.4.2 WiMAX

3.4.3 Satellite broadband

3.5 Broadband Powerline (BPL See broadband over power lines. )

4. Content and e-services

4.1 E-commerce

4.2 Online banking

5. Convergence

5.1 Overview of media convergence

5.2 Triple play models

5.3 Regulatory issues

6. Broadcasting

6.1 Pay TV statistics

6.2 Cable TV

6.2.1 Grupo Clarin

6.3 Satellite TV

6.3.1 DirecTV

6.4 Broadband TV (IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. )

6.5 Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV See digital cable. )

7. Related reports

Table

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/532fce/argentina_conver
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