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Strategic Analysis of Competitiveness and Innovation in the Tourism and Telecommunications Industries: Opportunities and Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Garrido, Celso - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …

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From Cybersecurity to Cybercrime: A Framework for Analysis and Implementation

Zaballos, Antonio García; Herranz, Félix González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This technical note outlines a framework for the analysis of cybersecurity, presenting considerations that are crucial to the success of a holistic and transversal cybersecurity strategy. It describes two essential pieces of the analysis: the broadband ecosystem and the basic terminology and...

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Methodology for the Broadband Development Index (IDBA) for Latin America and the Caribbean

Zaballos, Antonio García; Herranz, Félix González; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This discussion paper describes the methodology used to compute the Broadband Development Index (IDBA, Indice de Desarrollo de la Banda Ancha). The main goal of the IDBA is to size the Digital Divide in Latin America and the Caribbean by measuring the state of broadband development in the 26...

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The Effect Of Entry And Market Structure On Cellular Pricing Tactics

Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - Stanford University; Stanford University - 2004

We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellularfirms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, whenincumbents faced increased competition from personal communicationsservices (PCS) firms. Entry...

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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2004

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … telephony (VOIP). We also examine the impact of the 1996Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in … never be realized in local telecommunications inthe fashion that the 1996 prescribed. The decision of AT&T to stopmarketing …

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The Results of Competition Between Integrated-Services Telecommunications Carriers

Peha, Jon M.; Tewari, Saurabh - 1998

This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might …

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Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector

Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008

There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) lead to performance improvements of such firms. Since profitability measures alone are possibly inappropriate for SOEs, we address this very significant current question...

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