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Slow Times for Broadband Internet in Latin America - February 2002
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Author: Bruce Sinclair
 

These are bittersweet times for Impressos Dos Santos, a mid-sized printing company in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The company is on the verge of landing a pilot contract with a multinational firm that could lead to an elusive, long term contract. One of the stipulations is that the printer must provide access to its layout system via a broadband Internet connection.

This would be a minor issue in the US, but most of Belo Horizonte has no DSL or cable Internet access. A dedicated T1 link would cost thousands of dollars per month, and Dos Santos managers are having a hard time swallowing costs of this magnitude for a project that may or may not provide future inflows
 
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