We are delighted to present the 2005 edition of ITU’s Americas Telecommunication Indicators report. This new edition is the fourth indicator publication on the region. It was prepared to coincide with ITU TELECOM AMERICAS 2005, to be held 3-6 October...

The spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Americas region since 2000 has been dramatic and impressive, especially in the South and Central American and Caribbean subregions. These changes are having a profound and...

By 2004, there were 298 million main (fixed) telephone lines in the Americas. The largest fixedline networks are in the United States (180 million), Brazil (42 million) and Canada (20 million). The networks in these three countries accounted for 81...

By 2004, the total number of mobile subscribers in the Americas stood at 374 million, more than twice the market size in 2000.

Broadband technologies1 offer the potential for highspeed and permanent connections to the Internet and promise wide benefits in business, education and research. The level of broadband penetration is a key indicator of countries’ progress towards...

As part of the preparations for the second phase of the Word Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the meeting in Tunis in November 2005, the WSIS Secretariat has developed a publiclyaccessible database of WSIS-related activities, which contained...