The Internet and the community in Brazil: background, issues, and options

Author

Afonso, Carlos Alberto

Author_Institution

IBASE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

34

Issue

7

fYear

1996

fDate

7/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Lastpage

68

Abstract

The Internet in Brazil is experiencing explosive growth. Spawned by a newsmedia-driven public interest which began in early 1994, this growth has taken unique paths. In a country where the entire data communications and telephone services infrastructure is under a state monopoly, Internet services to final users are scattered through hundreds of private providers of all sizes, while Internet backbones operated by transnational companies are being installed to compete with a state-funded backbone and a state-owned backbone. This article describes nongovernmental networking activity and how it evolved from a purely academic network to one serving a much larger public

Keywords

Internet; Brazil; Internet; Internet backbones; academic network; data communications; newsmedia-driven public interest; nongovernmental networking activity; private providers; state monopoly; state-funded backbone; state-owned backbone; telephone services infrastructure; transnational companies; Bones; Costs; Councils; Environmental economics; Government; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Internet; Power generation economics; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.526890

Filename

526890