Building the Digital Economy: Latin America

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Argentina

Industry Recommendations

  • Remove outdated regulatory restrictions
  • Facilitate mergers and acquisitions
  • Extend coverage
  • Encourage competition in Quality of Service
  • Remove sector specific taxes
  • Optimise spectrum as a key input for the industry

Population 44.5
million

67% mobile broadband connections

61 million
mobile connections

Brazil

Industry Recommendations

  • Improve the quality of service
  • Enhance network sharing
  • Treat comparable services equally
  • Remove discriminatory obligations
  • Optimise use of spectrum
  • Rationalise the tax system making services more accessible and promoting digital inclusion

Population 210
million

85% mobile broadband connections

222 million
mobile connections

Chile

Industry Recommendations

  • Improve coverage by eliminating restrictions to infrastructure deployment
  • Enhance user rights through increased competition
  • Reduce regulatory burdens on existing services
  • Optimise radio spectrum, a key input for the industry and the development of IOT services
  • Create an institutional framework that can act across the digital ecosystem

Population 18.1
million

60% mobile broadband connections

26.1 million
mobile connections

Colombia

Industry Recommendations

  • Promote convergence and remove artificial legal barriers
  • Give all users the same level of consumer protection
  • Encourage competition in quality of service
  • Create a single converged regulator
  • Remove sector specific taxes

Population 49.3
million

60% mobile broadband connections

56 million
mobile connections

 

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