Buyer’s market for Government’s share of Telefonica Colombia but the price is fixed

Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2018

  A few weeks ago I wrote about the Colombian government’s sale of its share in Telefonica’s local subsidiary. My conclusion was that this was more than overdue. Now, to no one’s surprise, there is a press report that the government hopes to sell its shares to its partner. This article in Portafolio actually does […]

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Brazil announces new spectrum pricing rules. Why not throw them out completely?

Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Today the Brazilian regulator, ANATEL, announced a new spectrum pricing framework. A general article (in Portuguese) can be found here. The regulatory document is here. According to the news article – no I am not going to read the actual document, sorry – the formula tries to capture the value that an operator will derive […]

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Colombian government sets mínimum price for “ColTel” shares

Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018

I get a perverse kick out of seeing news articles that seem coded so that no one really understands what is going on. La Republica, July 17, 2018, Precio mínimo de acciones de participación de la Nación en Coltel será $2.075 Come on. How many out there know what ColTel is? Or why the Colombian […]

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Do you want your Minister to be a telecom expert or a good politician?

Posted on Tuesday, July 03, 2018

There will be a new government in Colombia on August 7th and the ICT Minister has not been named and there will be a new government in Mexico on December 1st but the Minister of Communications has already been named. If you had your choice – which you don’t – what kind of Minister would […]

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