• Fully digital
• Some 3.5 million landlines in service
• 12 million cell phones in service
• Internet user rate expected to grow to 1.5 million lines by 2010
• Chile is a recognized telecommunications and ICT infrastructure leader in Latin America. About 30 percent of homes have Internet access (Source: Department of Telecommunications (SUBTEL).
• E-government: In 2007, over 2.2 million tax returns -about 97.3% of the total- were filed online.

Financial Information

• Financial services are regulated by the Central Bank, an arm’s-length institution headed by a five-member Board of Governors overseeing currency and monetary policy.
• Sustained innovation and strong competition have resulted in a thriving financial sector and helped consolidate a sophisticated, effective network of financial institutions.
• Leading business lines include insurance, lease financing, stock brokerage, risk rating and foreign investment funds. Foreign concerns are active sectors players.

Physical Infrastructure

• Some US$8 billion worth of new investment.
• Over 2,400 km of new or rebuilt four-lane roads.
• 4,600-km north-south backbone with connections to points east and west.
• Pan American Highway travels 3,078 km from the border with Peru on the north to Puerto Montt on the south.
• The Southern Roadway travels over 1,000 km through to the impassable Southern Ice Fields (parallels 48 to 51 S).
• An additional highway artery travels 600 km from Torres del Paine to Punta Arenas and Tierra del Fuego.
• Santiago and most major cities have sophisticated airport facilities.
• New projects under consideration include irrigation systems, airports, railways, correctional facilities, rural hospitals, roads, and highways.

Seaports:

• Seaports handle 65.2 percent of imports and 96.4 percent of exports.
• Chilean seaports operate under a mixed arrangement encompassing 10 publicly-owned marine terminals, 11 privately-operated ports, and 15 public ports managed by private-sector operators.
• Improved management and infrastructure have resulted in significant efficiency gains.
• The Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) envisages ten coast-to-coast trade corridors, including four through Chile:
• Central Interoceanic Corridor (Arica-Iquique, Santa Cruz, Santos)
• Capricorn Corridor (Porto Alegre, Asunción, Jujuy, Antofagasta)
• MERCOSUR-Chile Corridor (Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago)
• Southern Corridor (Concepción, Neuquén, Bahía Blanca)
• Courier rates stand among Latin America’s lowest; general business services, including videoconferencing, are readily available.

Air Transportation:

• Chile has four major international airports and a comprehensive network of airport terminals in major urban centers.
• Chile is served by four domestic airlines.
• Passenger traffic in 2007 stood at 8,397,491, up 20.3 percent over 2006.
• International passenger traffic in 2007 rose 16.3 percent to 4,867,728.
• Domestic passenger traffic in 2007 rose 26.4 percent to 3,529,763.

As of June 2008, 19 international carriers offered the following weekly services from Santiago:

• 147 flights to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Bariloche, Salta, Mendoza)
• 92 flights to Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Florianopolis)
• 73 flights to Lima, Peru
• 65 flights to other Latin American destinations (Asunción, Bogotá, Ciudad del Este, La Paz, Islas Malvinas/Falkland Islands, Montevideo, Panama City, Quito, Santa Cruz, San José)
• 17 flights to Mexico City
• 5 flights to Toronto, Canada
• 96 flights to U.S. destinations (Miami, Atlanta, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles)
• 14 flights to Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, Auckland)
• 55 flights to Europe (Madrid, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich)

The seven areas of performance are:

• Efficiency of the clearance process by Customs and other border agencies.
• Quality of transport and information technology infrastructure for logistics.
• Ease and affordability of arranging international shipments.
• Competence of the local logistics industry.
• Ability to track and trace international shipments.
• Domestic logistics costs.
• Timeliness of shipments in reaching destination.