Latin America Telecommunications Map 2012

Digital copy only.
Gregory Staple coined the term “telegeography” in 1990 to describe the unprecedented new reach and impact of the world’s electronic communications networks. Rather than presaging the "death of distance", telegeography held that the rise of digital networks reflected an explosion of place (e.g., myriad new dialing codes, URLs, email addresses) that was dividing traditional social groups and splintering physical geographies of space and time . In 1993, Staple founded TeleGeography, Inc. (TGI) to research and compile reliable country-by-country statistics on the flow of international telephone and data traffic. TGI also began to map the physical infrastructure underlying these communications streams (subsea cables, landing stations, communication satellites, tele-houses).  Building on work published by London’s International Institute of Communications (IIC), where Staple worked in the late 1980’s, TGI issued annual statistical reports with commentary detailing the volume of cross-border telecommunications traffic and network links between over 50 countries - see the reports archive at https://www2.telegeography.com/telegeography-report-archive In 1996, TGI began to publish an annual poster-size map  of the world’s submarine telecommunication cables and landing stations - https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/i6v93f Some maps also included the footprints of major satellite networks. TGI's 2025 global communications map covers the approximately 600 international subsea cable systems that make up the Internet’s principal electronic backbone - https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~369655~90137030:Submarine-Cable-Map-2025?qvq=q:telegeography;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=37&trs=39   This 2014 Medium post recounts the history of TGI’s first 25 years - https://gregstaple.medium.com/mapping-tomorrow-c340d7dcc03f Map and image are copyright by PriMetrica, Inc. For copies of TeleGeography maps that are still in print, see https://shop.telegeography.com/collections/telecom-maps