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Started in the 80s
When the 80s entered several simultaneous changes occurred giving another course to the fate of computing instead of the proprietary operating systems of IBM, CDC and VAX, in the 80s, was the beginning of the first steps that were taken to include our country the Internet, the first idea of the TSO (Time Sharing Operation) was to have terminals then it was to make them graphic and intelligent, which ended up transforming them into computers. -
END OF THE '80s
The first email nodes in Honduras emerged at the end of the 1980s when Hondutel installed a packet-switching node, first Tymenet and then RACSA-PACK, the node worked well at 2400 baud, but it allowed the switching of packages in Central America, in Honduras. -
Payment for internet service
Dozens of companies began to provide Internet service since the early 90s of the twentieth century mainly through the telephone modem, with speeds of 56 kbps and up, at a cost of US $ 25 per month of connection while the minutes of Use of the telephone was paid to Hondutel as a local call. -
beginning of the 90s
Internet arrives in the country at the beginning of the nineties, when it is connected to various submarine cables, the most popular means of connection are through cable internet, fixed telephony and mobile internet. -
Internet through Hondutel
The completion of these projects meant that Hondutel reached, in 1997, a degree of digitization of the network of 90%, which, added to the replacement of a large part of the analogue plants involved in the plan and the change of transmission links , allowed to give telephone coverage to the most inaccessible areas of the country. On the other hand, this gradual digitalization of its network brought with it the offer of new services such as Internet and Hondupaq in 1996. -
Transnational cable and satellite infrastructures
In 1994, a project was launched to expand the transmission capacity between Honduras and the United States and between Honduras and Japan. To this end, Hondutel participates as a partner in the Columbus II and Americas I cables for connections with the United States and in the TPC5 cable for links with Japan. -
Honduras connects like this
Next Honduras was connected through the following cables: The Honduras-Japan cable TPC-5,
The Mexico-Honduras-Panama Maya 11 cable that has a bandwidth of 82.5 Gbps.
The ARCOS-1 cable was installed in 2001 and has a bandwidth of 960 Gbps. It has connections in Puerto Cortés, Trujillo and Tulum. -
Cybercafés
Cybercafés have increased since this time, today there are dozens of them in each neighborhood or neighborhood, so those who do not have computers or Internet can access the network for a cost of between 12 Lempiras equivalent to $ 0.65 per hour , usually at a bandwidth of about 512 kbps. -
2011 Mobile Internet
Mobile telephony in Honduras
Several companies offer mobile internet service, such as Claro, Tigo, etc. In 2011, Tigo and Amnet merged their brands to become Tigo. -
Watch Honduran Internet Television channels
Watch Internet Television
As of July 2012, he began transmitting his high definition signal through Claro TV.
Several television channels in the country offer via streaming the free tuning of their channels to be picked up anywhere in the world through the Internet, among them; National Educational Television, Telered 21, Cholusat Sur, Sulavision, among others.
