DSVD modem makers are now looking at ways to retrofit older devices already out in the workplace so that they'll conform to the new standard. The Peruvian Scientific Network, begun five years ago with seed money from the United Nations Development Fund and now reaching 22,000 subscribers, is the only cooperative network in Latin America that offers public use of computers and is not financed by a government. It answers that troubling question about access to new technology and whether the average person will be left out of the technological revolution. Web Review is not alone in having these problems. There is an average of one phone line for every 217 people, and 72 percent of the population lives in rural areas where, in some places like Chad, that statistic becomes one phone for every 800 people.
Computers are almost nonexistent.
There are no spare parts. There are no magazines.