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Industry Report Card: Latin American Telecommunications and Cable Oct 05
Standard & Poors, Oct 2005
Abstract
Since 2004, the regional expansion of mobile telephony, and to a much lesser extent of broadband Internet access, continues to drive growth in the Latin American telecommunications industry, concentrating most of the investment efforts and merger and acquisition interest. Mobile telephony clients have clearly surpassed the number of fixed lines in most of the countries in the region. While fixed-line substitution has marginally appeared in a handful of countries, new residential customers usually opt for a mobile service. This is gradually but noticeably taking traffic away from many local access providers, including the incumbents, whose major threat in the medium term is precisely to incentive traffic to compensate also for smaller tariffs for interconnection and for local and long distance...
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