info: Volume 15 Issue 3

The Latin American path towards digitization

Raul L. Katz, Pantelis Koutroumpis, Fernando Callorda

Digitization is defined as the social transformation triggered by the massive adoption of digital technologies to generate, process, share and transact information. This paper…

One goal, different strategies: an analysis of national broadband plans in Latin America

Hernan Galperin, Judith Mariscal, María Fernanda Viecens

The ambitious government initiatives currently underway to accelerate broadband development indicate a major shift from the consensus that prevailed during the 1990 s in the…

Independent regulators: theory, evidence and reform proposals

Francesc Trillas, Miguel A. Montoya

The purpose of this paper is to discuss literature and empirical evidence on regulatory independence especially in telecommunications and to suggest reforms of this institution.

The demand for mobile services in Colombia and the impact of asymmetric mobile regulation

Agustin J. Ros, Douglas Umaña

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact on mobile demand of an asymmetric regulation policy introduced in the year 2009 in Colombia. It aims to do this by estimating…

IIC Annual Conference

Giuditta De Prato

The battle for spectrum leads to M&A in the USA

Peter Curwen

New directions for telecommunications policy research in Latin America

Fernanda Viecens, Judith Mariscal