Research and Markets: Unique Insight to Central America's Telecom Market

El Salvador: The country's telecom market is among the most liberalised in
Central America.

Nicaragua: Although Nicaragua has the second lowest fixed-line teledensity
in Latin America, 2004 brought big and promising changes to the telecom
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Through the state-owned Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the government holds a monopoly over the
country's telecom and energy markets.

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This report provides information on Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Yet, despite theoretical
liberalisation , BTL still holds a de facto monopoly. While
fixed-line services are yet to be liberalised, value -added services and mobile
telephony are open to competition. In January 2004, the government sold its remaining 49% interest in
Enitel to America Movil, thus completing the privatisation of the telecom
sector.com .

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Telecommunications (Intelco) became BTL's first competitor in October 2003,
but was bankrupt by November 2004. The government pledged to
increase telecom competition prior to the market's full liberalisation
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"As a provider of medical care and anti-retroviral AIDS treatment in
Mexico, we are keenly aware of the life-depriving consequences of trade pacts
like NAFTA," said Michael Weinstein, President of the AIDS Healthcare
Foundation, which operates three HIV clinics in Honduras and one in Mexico
that offer free AIDS care and generic antiretroviral medications.newscom . With a high percentage of the population living in rural areas, the
country's fixed-line teledensity is at the low end of the scale for Latin
America. Mobile phones overtook fixed lines in
2001, and are now more than double the number of fixed lines in service.researchandmarkets.

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As a result, the mobile industry in Nicaragua may soon be
served by only two nationwide operators: Telefonica Moviles and America Movil. Panama's telecom infrastructure is modern and reliable, and is
serviced by five global submarine fibre optic cables that cross from ocean to
ocean through the Panama Canal, creating new opportunities for telecom,
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For patients currently
on treatment in Central America, CAFTA will mean a fifteen-fold increase in
the cost of their medications. In August 2004,
America Movil increased its interest in Enitel to 99. The American people want their legislators to resist special interest
pressure and instead work with colleagues and businesses of all sizes to solve
the health care challenges facing America.

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The report was prepared for Rep. According to a press release from Waxman's
office, the report, " .com/reports/c17927 ) has announced the addition
of 2005 Latin America Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Central America to
their offering.com/reports/c17927

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press@researchandmarkets .

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Dial-up access is offered
free of charge by several providers, and public Internet access centres have
opened in various cities and large towns.
"We're hopeful that more state legislators across America -- like those in
Wisconsin -- will come to realize that these bills are harmful to working
families.

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Internet usage is mostly
concentrated in San Salvador and a few other cities .

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Growth in the Internet market is hampered by widespread poverty, a
linguistically and ethnically divided population, a small private sector, and
inadequate education.com
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describes how CAFTA and six other trade agreements
signed or under negotiation by the Bush Administration compromise the
principles adopted in the 2001 Doha Declaration, an international agreement
that trade accords should not interfere with public health and access to
medicines. A third company, SpeedNet Communications ,
now has the task of breaking BTL's monopoly. It began to build a CDMA2000 1X
network in September 2004, and plans to offer Internet access, wireless
broadband and various corporate services as well as mobile telephony. However, the country experienced a couple of
serious set backs due to natural disasters: Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and the
devastating earthquakes of 2001.

Honduras: The country has 4th lowest fixed-line penetration in Latin
America, after Haiti, Nicaragua and Paraguay .

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. However, January 2004 marked a
significant step for Costa Rica with the signing of the Central American Free
Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which calls for a gradual liberalization of the
telecom sector. In September 2003, it launched the 'Telephony For
All' program, which allows new operators to provide local telephone services
by becoming partners of Hondutel, the state-owned fixed-line incumbent. More information about
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Hails Waxman Report Faulting Trade Agreements Like
NAFTA and CAFTA for Reducing Access to Life -saving HIV/AIDS Medications

LOS ANGELES, AIDS advocates from AIDS Healthcare
Foundation (AHF), the nation's largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care
serving thousands of patients in the U.

Guatemala: While telecom infrastructure in Guatemala is fairly modern in
the main urban centres, rural telephony remains inadequate and antiquated,
though a lot better that prior to the 1996 liberalisation of the telecom
market. In April 2004, the regulator announced that Nicaragua 's fixed-line
market would be opened to full competition in December 2004. The company's securities are listed on the New
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Key Statistics
Market Overview
Regulatory Environment
Fixed Network Operators
Telecom Infrastructure
Data Market
Internet
Broadband
E-services
Mobile Market Overview
Mobile Operators
Broadcasting

Belize: The second smallest and most sparsely populated country in Central
America, Belize was among the first Latin American countries to privatise its
national telecom company in 1988, but gave the incumbent, Belize
Telecommunications Ltd (BTL), a 15-year monopoly concession until end-2002 for
all fixed-line and mobile phone services. Though also not high by Latin American standards, mobile telephony
has been a fast growing market, helped along by one of the most liberal radio
spectrum regulatory models in the world. Not only will they do nothing to control the cost of health care or
improve access to health coverage, they will cost jobs and hurt economic
growth.
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operates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China , Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South
Korea and the United Kingdom.

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Millicom's subsidiary Celtel was the only
mobile operator until November 2003, when a second provider, Megatel, launched
GSM services. Mobile telephony received a further boost in June 2004 with the
entry of America Movil into the Honduran market when it acquired 100% of
Megatel.

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"It would
be a tragedy if CAFTA deprives the rapidly-growing population of HIV patients
throughout Central America access to life-saving ARVs.researchandmarkets. Yet Costa Rica is the least
liberalised telecom market in Latin America.

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S., Africa, Central America and Asia ,
today hailed Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) for his release of a new
report detailing how the pending Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
and other trade agreements like NAFTA derail access to affordable generic
medications in Latin and Central America and other developing world countries,
including access to life-saving anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for HIV/AIDS
treatment . We believe that these trade agreements are bad
medicine for people with AIDS.

Costa Rica: Served by a relatively modern and sophisticated
telecommunications infrastructure, Costa Rica has the second highest Internet
penetration rate in Latin America after Chile. As a result, fixed-line teledensity is still
only just over 11%, while mobile telephony overtook fixed lines in service in
2002, reaching over 23% penetration by early 2005.

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Since then, the government has awarded numerous new concessions for fixed-line
telephony. BellSouth Panama (acquired by Telefonica in October 2004 ) and C+WP
have exclusive rights over the mobile market until 2007.com .

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Included in the above report are four exhibits
and one hundred and thirteen tables.

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Since the sector was privatised and opened to competition in
1998, foreign operators and local companies have invested millions in
infrastructure improvements.03%, and applied for
authorization to merge Enitel Movil with Sercom Nicaragua. In October 2004,
BellSouth completed the sale of its Nicaraguan unit TCN BellSouth to
Telefonica Moviles.

Panama: The country opened its telecom industry to full competition in
January 2003, ending the monopoly enjoyed by Cable + Wireless Panama (C+WP).
(NYSE: WMT) spokesman Nate Hurst today issued the following statement on
defeated "Fair Share Health Care" legislation in Wisconsin:

"This was the first legislative action on a special interest 'health care'
bill since legislators in Maryland overrode a veto earlier this month. union leaders driving these
state-by-state attacks against large employers.

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However, the
government announced that it would award two new mobile concessions at end-
2005, even though the licence winners will not be able to launch services
until 2008.C. operates Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood
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