Publications
Broadband in Latin America: Opportunities to reduce tariffs, improve quality and expand service
A new study reveals that prices in Latin America are almost three times as high as those in more developed countries. A 10 percent tariff reduction would result in a nearly 19 percent increase in penetration, equivalent to 4.7 million additional connections in the region.
TRE in Andean countries: evidence from Peru and Ecuador 2007 - 2009
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Spectrum Management: Demand and the Debate on its Alternative Uses
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Material presented at the Seminar New Technologies and its Challenges for Telecom Regulation, held in Brasilia on May 13, 2010, prior to IV ACORN-REDECOM Conference
Index
- Spectrum overview
- Goals in spectrum management
- Stakeholders and spectrum demand
- Basic views for management and planning
- Frequency allocation and spectrum's fixing of prices
- Current debate: main issues
a) Spectrum Sharing
b) White Spaces
c) Digital Divide - Mobile spectrum in Latin America
Telecommunications in Latin America in the last decade: Reaching the rest of the world
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Abstract
The article presents an interesting and complete evaluation of the sector's performance taking into account a variety of dimensions: technologies, growth of traditional and new services. pricing levels and use of services, sector revenues, and investment.
Original publication: Revista AHCIET 118 - abril-junio 2009
Digital Poverty published in Spanish
Pobreza Digital: Perspectivas de América Latina y el Caribe, the Spanish edition of DIRSI's book Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives is now available for purchase from the online store of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE).
Mobiles for Development: M-Banking
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Abstract
The adoption of mobile phones by the poor has been an unexpected phenomenon that is having a remarkable impact on social and economic development. The significance of mobile adoption is now beginning to be understood by scholars and policy makers; the emergence of m-banking/m-payments systems has implications for the more general set of discussions around the role of mobile telephony in the developing world.
The contribution of regulation to the growth of mobile telephony in Latin America
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Abstract
Original Title: Contribución de la regulación al crecimiento de la telefonía móvil en América Latina
This paper analyses the regulatory frame for mobile telephony as a determinant of its growth in Latin America, putting an emphasis in those aspects that contribute to improve the connectivity among the poor.
Mobile Opportunities: Poverty and Telephony Acceso in Latin America and the Caribbean. The case of Mexico.
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Abstract
Original Title: Oportunidades Móviles: Pobreza y Acceso a la Telefonía en América Latina y el Caribe. El Caso de México.
Mobile Opportunities: Poverty and Telephony Acceso in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Case of Colombia
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Abstract
Original Title:
TELEPHONY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; LATIN AMERICA; CARIBBEAN
Mobile Opportunities. Poverty and Telephony Access in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Case of Peru
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Original Title: Oportunidades Móviles: Pobreza y Acceso a la Telefonía en América Latina y el Caribe. El caso de Perú
