Latin America is a region of low travel traffic between borders in comparison to Europe or North America. Nevertheless, an important population concentration exists in these zones of the region. 4 % of the population, according to the IIRSA, lives in these zones only a few kilometers away from an international border.
The electromagnetic spectrum is a limited resource and is assigned by the respective regulative authority in each country. As a consequence, there are many cases in which mobile networks of neighbor countries are assigned the same bands of frequencies.
When the signal of a network is more powerful than that of his neighbor, different implications to the provision of the service may occur. Particularly, interference problems can disable the possibility of placing calls and generate cases of Accidental Roaming inside the country of the customer.
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