Posted on Monday, July 16, 2012Equipment vendors fined in Costa Rica for NOT bidding. Competition bureau says they “colluded” since none accepted #ICE conditions Here is the link for the story that inspired me but I have since seen it elsewhere. Full disclosure: I don’t have all the facts: only what I have read and surmised. Also I did a consulting project […]
Read More Posted on Monday, July 09, 2012Colombia delays 4G #spectrum auction to Sept. Hopes to attract new players. So does everyone. Few achieve this. Incumbency counts. It’s tragic really. Governments consistently say they want to attract new players to Latin American spectrum auctions. It rarely happens. The last truly new player to enter via auction was probably VTR in Chile a few years […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012I recently had a chance to review America Movil/Comcel’s economic testimony used in their bid to avoid or mitigate Dominant Carrier Regulation in Colombia. As might be expected given the financial resources of the company, it was prepared by recognized economic experts who argued their points well. I have some technical quibbles with the statistical […]
Read More Posted on Monday, June 18, 2012A recent article from Ecuador in BNAmericas entitled “Ministers meet to discuss possibility of tariff reductions for mobile services” (Sorry subscription required) made me think about the theme of unintended consequences and then about the title. The story from the World Bank, IMF, US government etc. in the mid-90s was that privatization was the solution […]
Read More Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012For a long time, Chile has been the region’s most advanced telecommunications market First with long distance competition First with new mobile technologies — GSM, WCDMA, HSPA First with new fixed technologies like MPLS Those of us who work in countries thought to be “less well-organized” could only sigh in envy at the unspoken alliance […]
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