QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica has the highest mobile internet penetration in Latin America, according to data published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), reports La Republica.
Costa Rica has 72 active subscribers to the service per 100 inhabitants, a figure close to the OECD average of 79. Brazil is second with 51 percent, followed by Uruguay with 45 percent.
Bottom of the list is Nicaragua, where mobile internet services are used by less than 5 percent of the population.
Does not surprise me seeing as mobile internet is the only way many areas can even obtain internet. Myself being one of those that is forced to use the mobile internet service without choice other than no internet. Hard wire internet lags way behind in so many areas of the country and ICE makes no bones about it when they say it will not be coming any time soon. It would be nice to at least see the speeds as I am paying for during the daytime, not just after midnite and before 6AM.