Competition in the Internet market in Latin America is getting fierce, and a new online shop focused on the region is apparently taking that reality to heart, judging from its name and its plans for growth in 2000.
Internet media company StarMedia Network Inc. and interactive television and broadband specialist WorldGate Communications Inc. yesterday signed an agreement to provide Spanish and Portuguese content for WorldGate's Internet on Every TV Service in Latin America and Spain.
Matrix Internet SA today launched high-speed broadband digital subscriber line (DSL), cable modem and wireless Internet access to business and residential customers in Brazil. The company is the country's fifth largest ISP (Internet service provider).
Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd., a provider of telephone service via satellite, this week launched a preliminary version of its service in México.