Pete Bell's TeleGeography data (below) show 10% growth at Argentina, Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. Puerto Rico and Venezuela actually lost subscribers. Brazil added 2,083,000 to 28,670,000 (7.8% growth.) Telefónica Vivo is rushing to 10M homes with FTTH in order to win market share.
Uruguay has 79% household penetration. Government-owned Antel has covered 82% of the country with fiber home. Chile and Mexico are far behind at 61% and 59%. Brazil is at 43%. I don't have data, but I'd bet San Paulo and the Southern part of Brazil are closer to 60% and the North much lower. Brazil has extreme income and racial inequality with a Gini coefficient of 50. (The U.S. is the most unequal of developed countries, at 40; France is 32.)
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Latin America Fixed Broadband – Top 15 Markets, Dec-17
| Subscribers Dec-16 |
Subscribers Dec-17 |
Annual Growth | Household Penetration | |
| Brazil | 26,587,000 | 28,670,000 | 7.8% | 43.4% |
| Mexico | 16,278,000 | 17,025,000 | 4.6% | 57.6% |
| Argentina | 7,199,000 | 7,950,000 | 10.4% | 59.1% |
| Colombia | 5,936,000 | 6,321,000 | 6.5% | 50.3% |
| Chile | 2,912,000 | 3,100,000 | 6.5% | 60.7% |
| Venezuela | 2,616,000 | 2,613,000 | -0.1% | 34.5% |
| Peru | 2,106,000 | 2,220,000 | 5.4% | 27.7% |
| Ecuador | 1,610,000 | 1,779,000 | 10.5% | 32.9% |
| Uruguay | 922,000 | 946,000 | 2.6% | 78.9% |
| Guatemala | 791,000 | 871,000 | 10.1% | 33.1% |
| Dominican Republic | 761,000 | 814,000 | 7.0% | 26.9% |
| Costa Rica | 636,000 | 711,000 | 11.8% | 48.6% |
| Puerto Rico | 687,000 | 675,000 | -1.7% | 44.5% |
| Panama | 430,000 | 446,000 | 3.7% | 43.5% |
| El Salvador | 395,000 | 437,000 | 10.6% | 27.4% |