Latin America Fixed Wireless Broadband Regulatory Issues

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1 Latin America Fixed Wireless Broadband Regulatory Issues
By: Andres F. Rodriguez

2 Driving Fixed Wireless Broadband in Latin America
Liberalization and convergence Spectrum allocation High leased line prices and delay Last Mille Bottleneck Internet grow

3 Internet Grow 1999 Source: ITU

4 Internet Accounts Grow Latin America
Source: IDC

5 Waiting list for fixed lines (months)

6 Competition in Latin America
Source: ITU

7 Incumbent participation on the Internet Market
Source: ITU

8 Liberalization schedule
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Mexico Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Source: Pyramid Research Neither Privatized or Liberalized Privatized, Not Liberalized Liberalized not Privatized Privatized and Liberalized Source and design:Pyramid Research

9 Latin American Regulators
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Venezuela Government Cuba Fiscal Control Costa Rica Dominican Republic Congress

10 Regulations affecting Fixed Wireless Broadband
Spectrum allocation Services licensing and regulations Local and long distance voice Data and Internet VoIP Convergence ( TV + others) Access regulations (to building)

11 CITEL recommendations (March 2000) LMDS/LMCS:
Ghz (recommendation ITU) Ghz (priority over satellite) Ghz Ghz

12 10.5 Ghz Argentina Brazil (*) Colombia Mexico Peru (*)

13 11 Ghz Brazil Colombia 13 Ghz Peru

14 15 Ghz Brazil Mexico Brazil Colombia Peru 18 Ghz

15 23 Ghz Argentina Brazil (*) Colombia Mexico Peru (*) Venezuela (*)

16 24 Ghz Argentina Colombia 26 Ghz Peru Uruguay (*) (EUROPA)

17 28 Ghz Argentina Brazil (*) Chile (*) Colombia Mexico (*) Uruguay (*)
Venezuela

18 38 Ghz Argentina Brazil Colombia Mexico Peru

19 Internet Licenses (Latin America)

20 Latin America Local Loop Exclusivity
Source: ITU

21 Local Loop Monopoly or exclusivity Competition Argentina Brasil Chile
Colombia Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Peru Bolivia Costa Rica Cuba Ecuador Honduras Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela Competition

22 VoIP

23 Problem: lacking convergence regulation The Brazilian case
Domestic provision of TV programming: CABLE TV(164 licenses) MMDS (51 licenses) DTH (9 licenses) Delivering mainly audio and TV

24 The Brazilian Case (II)
MMDS Legislation: General Telecommunications Law Cable Law (8.977/95) Cable Regulations (Rule 13/96 and Dec /97) MMDS Regulation (Rule 002/94 ver.97) Special Services Regulations (Dec /97) DTH Regulation (Rule 008/97)

25 The Brazilian Case (III)
November 1999 Regulation that established the rules for High Speed Internet Access over (Mass Communications Services to Subscriber MCSS (Cable TV, MMDS and DTH). February 2000 ANATEL decided to auction telephony licenses where there is no effective competition. Mid 2000

26 The Brazilian Case (IV)
Revision of Pay TV regulations: regulating services NO technologies FUTURE-LMDS: regulation as a convergence system

27 Fixed Wireless Broadband “Regulation for convergence”
Data+ Internet + Local Telephone + Long Distance Telephone + TV

28 Andres Rodriguez andres@cyberegulation.com +1(202)7212371