Healthy economic growth in Latin America has created an environment favorable to investment in telecommunications infrastructure, much of which has been focused on wireless and is now shifting to high-speed upgrades, according to the TIA 2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast recently released by the association.

The 400-page annual report is used by hundreds of companies to plan their business strategies, budgets, R&D and marketing efforts. Sections include landline, wireless, equipment and international markets, with 450 charts and tables illustrating the detailed text.

Some of the TIA data about Latin America includes:

• The number of broadband subscribers will triple during the next four years to 51 million by 2011, a 32.4 percent compound annual increase
  
  
• Penetration will significantly improve from 3.2 subscriptions per 100 people in 2007 to 9.4 in 2011
  
  
• Broadband will pass dial-up in 2008 and by 2011 will account for 84 percent of all Internet connections
  
  
• The surging wireless market rose a cumulative 51 percent in 2006 and 2007 after nearly doubling during the prior two years
  
  
• By 2007, there were 3.7 times as many wireless subscribers as landlines subscribers
  
  
• Carriers are looking to introduce value-added services, upgrading their networks to 3G to facilitate services such as music downloaded to mobile phones
  
  
• TIA expects continued double-digit wireless market growth in 2008, with mid-to-high single-digit increases projected for 2009-2011
  
  
• By 2011, wireless subscribers in Latin America will total 493.4 million, up 8.4 percent on a compound annual basis from 2007

Order your copy of the TIA Market Review report today, and ask for the significant discount offered if your company is an association member. For details contact marketreview@tiaonline.org or call +1.703.907.7074.

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