Magazine: NYC is Top Telecom Hub

CarrierHotels News Staff

Sept. 6, 2000 -- New York City tops a rating of the the world's top 20 telecom hubs, released today by Advanstar Telecom Group's magazines.
Tokyo was ranked as the second top hub, followed by London, Los Angeles and Miami.
"A city's attractiveness as a telecom hub is a major determinant of whether it will be a prosperous place in the 21st century,'' said Advanstar group editorial director Grahame Lynch. "In the same way that access to maritime and overland trading routes determined prosperity in the past, access to affordable and bountiful bandwidth services will be the marker of the future.
"Many of the cities on our list are natural economic and trading centers. But others such as Miami and Amsterdam make the list because of their special characteristics,'' said Lynch. ``Miami has become the de facto business capital of Latin America. And Amsterdam has become the call center capital of Europe by virtue of that city's advanced multilingual abilities."
Lynch said that the hubs were ranked against a set of criteria including: access to global cables and satellite infrastructure, teledensity, economic size and importance, telecom market contestability and sustainablility, competitive infrastructure, quality of regulation and liberalization, presence of multinational and telecom investment and the level of political & economic risk.
Participating Advanstar magazines included America's Network, The Euronet, Telepress LatinoAmerica and Telecom Asia.

Top 20 Telecom Hubs:

1- New York City
2- Tokyo
3- London
4- Los Angeles
5- Miami
6- Washington DC,
7- Chicago,
8- San Francisco Bay Area
9- Hong Kong
10- Frankfurt
11- Dallas
12- Singapore
13- Amsterdam
14- Paris
15- Toronto
16- Sydney
17- Brussels
18- Madrid
19- Seoul
20- Sao Paulo.

Source: Advanstar Magazine