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Industry Report Card: Latin American Telecommunication And Cable Companies Look To Future Growth Jul 06
Standard & Poors, July 2006
Abstract
Following a trend perceived since 2003, the regional expansion of the mobile telephony in Latin America concentrates most of the investment efforts and merger and acquisition interest. In many markets, mobile telephony clients are now about twice as many as the number of fixed lines. While fixed-line substitution has marginally appeared in a handful of countries, it is not uncommon to find that it is the new residential customers opting for a mobile service, without hiring for a residential wired line. This evolution has noticeably taken traffic away from many local access providers, including the incumbents, whose major challenge in the medium term is to increase traffic to compensate for smaller tariffs for interconnection and for local and long-distance services....
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