Internet gains market in payment of services in Latin America

World IT Report, Apr 9, 2003

Internet wins in confidence, according to the acceptance that dedicated companies have to offer specialized services in telecommunications (like network access and "hosting"). A recent study of Vividence Research to measure the impacts in the United States, Mexico and other countries of Latin America revealed that the users of services of telecommunications save 40% when they trust Internet.

Vividence explains that, in average, the payment for Internet access oscillates between 50 and 70 dollars annually per user, if it is contracted on line, whereas if it is obtained from traditional ways the cost goes around 120 dollars. This service is until now considered like the most popular, because of its nature generates in companies and users the saving certainty, not only in money bit also in time, reported El Universal.

The same happens to the payments of cable television, whose quotas, according to the consultant, are 31% less on line. Also the services of telephony of long distance and wireless telephony (cellular) see beneficiaries, with reductions in payments of 15%. As far as the services of hosting and related, one calculates that the hirings by Internet method save users 60%, an important data for many companies that look to save money using the Internet. -(World It Report.com)