T here is truly a telecommunications revolution occurring globally.
Developing countries are eagerly seeking to upgrade and expand their telecommunications infrastructure in order to provide a base for bringing in the manufacturing industry. Developed countries are expanding the services provided over telecommunications and cable television networks. The principal operators in most of the countries profiled in this report notably, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have largely rebuilt their networks during the 1990s. Because of the liberalization of the Latin American telecommunications services markets, between 1998 and 2002 an increasing number of competitors will be making increasing investments in equipment as they build their own facilities. Operators are expanding the capacity of their networks by broadening bandwidth to support multimedia services.