Background Information
Mexico is one of the most well known Latin American countries. Mexico is located between the United States and Guatemala. As of July 2005 the estimated population was 106,202,903.  The literacy rate in Mexico is 92.2%. Mexico has a federal republic government as well as a free market economy.  It recently entered the trillion dollar class. It's GDP per capita is $9, 600. Forty percent of the Mexican population lives below poverty. As of 2005, Mexico has approximately 17.1 million users connected to the internet.
The Internet in Mexico
The first people to connect to the Internet in Mexico were academic institutions. The Monterrey campus of El Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) established the first direct connection to the Internet in 1989. Even though the institution had the internet, often times it was slow because they used a connection through Mexico City and it was sometimes interrupted. The country got off to a slow start with their connection to the internet because they did not have all the financial backing that was necessary to efficiently have everyone connected.  Through the help of the government and several academic institutions, in 1994, they agreed to finance the first national backbone.  This backbone would link the regional academic backbones as well as provide direct connections to the United States.
    After 1995, the use of the internet by universities and government agencies in Mexico grew rapidly.  By 2000, most of the college students had email addresses and the government agencies had Ethernets.  According to CUDI:   
In 2001, Mexico joined a consortium of American universities to l ...