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Article: Latin America: Learning the Tricks of the Trade.
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- Via Satellite
- Article date:
- June 14, 2000
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By Rob Fernandez
For the satellite industry, the developing regions of the world offer a particularly fertile market for its unique telecommunications services. Latin America is one region that is top on the lists of many satellite players, both large and small. But beneath the convenient catch-all label, this region has a great degree of diversity.
Latin America encompasses extremes on both ends of the scale, with definite "hot spots," where the level of economic and technical sophistication is every bit the equal of the "developed" world, and areas where the only viable option for communications remains the satellite sector. While some satellite ...