Showing posts with label digital divide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital divide. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2009

Monopolies are bad

And Carlos Slim is no bueno.
According to these rankings (pdf) of internet accessibility and broadband usage, Mexico ranks last of thirty countries in a composite of broadband measures. One of those measures is price per Mpbs of usage per month. And at $18.41 a month per Mpbs, Mexicans pay about 6x more than combined average of the other 29 countries.
From what I hear, the world´s richest man and proprietor of Telemex (Mexico´s telecom giant), Carlos Slim has something to do with these gauging prices that have resulted in only 20% of the households here having access to internet. For comparison´s sake, the US has about 60% household access to internet.