Home Broadband a Must in Downturn. Consumers of all income levels are cutting spending because of the economy.
Where will they trim the fat first? Strategy Analytics surveyed household decision-makers to find out. When it came to home entertainment and communications budgets for the next year, 69% of the households said they would either keep or increase their spending on home broadband. Other services, including pay TV and landline phones, were not so lucky. But mobile data plans were most vulnerable. Argentina Broadband Booming. Argentina, home to one of Latin America’s fastest-growing Internet populations, is experiencing an explosion in broadband. eMarketer estimates that in 2008 over 31% of households in Argentina had some form of broadband connection.
In 2013, that figure will nearly double to 61%. Brasil é 10º país em usuários de banda larga - INFO Online - (10.