Chile's telecommunications market is one of the most open and competitive in the world. Nevertheless, about 10 percent … financed by the national budget and administered by a council chaired by the telecommunications minister. The council decides … on the annual program of projects eligible for subsidy and awards the projects and subsidies through competitive bidding …

There is general concern that producer subsidies distort competition. We examine a telecommunications subsidy system … beneficiaries of the subsidy system …

Telecommunications long was a sector where sellers of services operated in protected local markets, where law and … provision of telecommunications services was reserved for state-owned monopoly suppliers. During the late 1980s and through the … effectively blocked non-US telecommunications service providers from acquiring US telecom firms if the former were state-owned, or …