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Bolivia
Internet Usage and
Market Report
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Bolivia, officially The Republic of Bolivia, was named after Simon
Bolivar, and is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered
by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and
Chile and Peru on the west.
Bolivia Internet Usage
Statistics:
3,087,000
Internet users as of June 30, 2012, 30.0% of the population, according
to IWS.
Bolivia Facebook
Subscribers:
1,753,060
Facebook subscribers on Sept 30, 2012, 17.0% of the population, according
to Facebook.
Latest Population
Estimate:
10,290,003
population for 2012, according to US Census Bureau.
Doing Business in
Bolivia:
GNI per
capita is US$ 2,040 , see the World Bank Group’s Doing Business
database
Local Weather in
Bolivia:
Local weather for
Bolivian cities, see the
Weather forecast
Bolivia Country
Size:
1,098,581 sq
km - Population density is 9 persons per sq km.
Internet Growth and
Population Statistics:
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YEAR
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Population
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Internet
Users
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% Pen.
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GNI
p.c.
|
Usage
Source
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2000
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8,476,200
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120,000
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1.4
%
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$
1,000
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ITU
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2005
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9,073,856
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480,000
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5.2
%
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$
900
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ITU
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2008
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9,601,257
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1,000,000
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10.4
%
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$
1,100
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IWS
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2012
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10,290,003
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3,087,000
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30.0
%
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$
2,040
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IWS
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Note: GNI is Gross National Income per capita, and corresponds
to
World Bank data in US dollars.
Bolivia
Search Engines:
Bolivia Search
Engines
Listing of
Bolivian SE and Directories.
Bolivia Local Time and
Dialing Code:
Bolivian local
time.
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Bolivia Internet Usage and Broadband:
Bolivia - Telecoms Mobile Market
Overview and Broadband
One of the poorest and least developed Latin American nations,
Bolivia has South America’s lowest mobile penetration and second lowest fixed-line
teledensity. Mobile telephony suffers from poor quality of service and inadequate network
capacity. In April 2007, the government moved to renationalize the incumbent operator, Entel,
50% owned by Telecom Italia. But negotiations between the Bolivian state and the Italian
telco turned sour, leading to an impasse despite international conciliation attempts. If it
gains control of Entel, the government plans to shift its focus from technological innovation
to providing basic coverage in rural areas. This report provides an overview of the country’s
telecom sector accompanied by relevant statistics and analyses. See report summary
here.
Global Telecoms and the Future of the
Internet We were lucky that the internet in its current
format was invented by academics and innovative independent entrepreneurs rather than
by governments and the vested commercial interests. Furthermore, the various elements
of the internet are built by private companies and as such are also owned by them, very
little internet ownership is in the hands of governments. The internet would never have
been developed if it had been left to governments, telcos or the international
institutions around them. See table of contents and the executive summary
here.
Bolivia Country Profile:
Bolivia Profile by
the BBC
World Bank News on Bolivia
CIA Factbook on
Bolivia
Lanic -
Bolivia
Site with links about Bolivia, maintained
by the University of Texas at Austin.
Wikipedia about
Bolivia
History, politics,
geography, economy and demographics of Bolivia.
Internet Usage in
Bolivia
Bolivia's largest telecoms co-operative, Cooperativa
de Telefonos Automaticos La Paz (COTEL), has upgraded its network infrastructure
in the Bolivian capital La Paz, BNamericas is reporting. It is understood that the
upgrade will allow COTEL to expand its services to include IP telephony, data
transmission and on-demand video services, and the company has announced that
it is aiming to increase its internet subscriber base by at least 25% this year.
According to TeleGeography's GlobalComms database, the broadband market in Bolivia
is currently dominated by Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel), which
claims 90.28% market share.
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