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The Legal and Regulatory Implications of Network Convergence in Brazil |
| Author: |
Fabio Ferreira Kujawski, Esq. |
| Title: |
Partner |
| Organisation: |
Carvalho de Freitas e Ferreira Advogados Associado |
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176KB |
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| Convergence of telecommunications networks provides a number of challenges for regulators worldwide, including in Brazil. Since the issuance of the former Brazilian Telecommunications Code, in 1962, as revoked almost in full by the 1997 Brazilian Telecom Act (Law 9,472), regulators used to set forth rules on a per service basis, meaning that for each service, there were specific licensing and operating statutes. |
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Article no.: |
2 |
| Topic: |
Wireless Networks Trends in Latin America |
| Author: |
Erasmo Rojas |
| Title: |
Director Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Organisation: |
3G Americas |
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140KB |
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| Despite steady growth, the Latin American mobile market still has enormous potential. Mobile penetration is less than half that in the USA and one quarter of some European countries. Wireless growth is expected to level off shortly as the pool of customers with purchasing power dwindles. Affordable, feature-rich, handsets are needed to give users access to data based services such as SMS, MMS, and the Internet. These, and content directed at selected local audiences, are the keys to operator revenue growth. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
| Topic: |
Convergence–The day before |
| Author: |
Antonio Augusto Firmato |
| Title: |
Executive Director Fixed Networking |
| Organisation: |
Alcatel Telecomunicações, Brazil |
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128KB |
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| Broadband, which can offer multiple services through a single provider, is a driver of convergence. This is transforming the traditional roles of the telecommunications sector's operators and manufacturers and re-distributing the market amongst players. Vendors will no longer be factory-centric organisations; they will outsource fabrication to specialised manufacturers. The operator's access and transport businesses, now commodities, will shrink. Broadband will transform networks into distribution channels for multimedia content, applications, and direct sales, whilst content providers and aggregators will become major players. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
Voice Over Internet - VoIP - in Latin America |
| Author: |
Dr Judy Reed Smith |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Atlantic-ACM |
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176KB |
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| VoIP, either over private networks or public Internet saves money. Individuals using pre-paid cards for long-distance calls, despite the many fly-by-night operators, save significantly. Businesses in Latin America, are starting to use VoIP for cost savings and, also, for unified messaging, voice portals, multimedia conferencing, eCommerce and, because of terrorism, to reduce executive travel. Adoption has been slowed, though, by quality and security reservations, interoperability challenges, regulatory hurdles imposed by some countries and due to foot-dragging by local operating companies. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
Convergence, Globalisation And Universal Service |
| Author: |
Carlos Eduardo Balen Y Valenzuela |
| Title: |
Commissioner and former Executive Director |
| Organisation: |
Comision de Regulación de Comunicaciones - C.R.T - Colombia |
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252KB |
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| The evolution of ICTs brings the promise of great social and economic impact developing economies. The convergence of networks and services poses a series of regulatory challenges. Traditionally, regulations defined services in terms of the transmission medium or frequencies assigned. Today, digital technologies transmit any and all content via any and all means of transmission. Consequently, service-bound regulatory structures will have to change to permit new technologies that will help the universalisation of access and, consequently, social and economic growth. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Pervasive Communications: Changing How We Live And Work |
| Author: |
Peter Källberg |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
Ericsson do Brasil |
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120KB |
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| The wireline, wireless, data, Internet and media segments are converging. Voice still dominates wireline communications, which have yet to fully reach the low-end market, but Internet - broadband - is increasingly available. Potential mobile users, many uneducated, find the phones costly and complex. New phones are needed that combine functionality, low cost - perhaps through government subsidies, multimedia capabilities and voice-activation to facilitate use. These devices should access the Internet, where all services converge, to help reduce the digital divide. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
VoIP Opportunities in Latin America |
| Author: |
Dan Powdermaker |
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Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales |
| Organisation: |
iBasis |
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124KB |
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| Latin American operators, responding to economic pressure, have shifted from investing for rapid growth to cost savings and maximising return from existing infrastructure. VoIP wholesalers have built partnerships with backbone providers, avoided capital intensive network building and, having taken advantage of falling bandwidth prices, pass the savings to Latin American operators who can cut costs to build margins. Today's leading VoIP providers use the public Internet and highly sophisticated service quality management systems to ensure high voice quality and call completion. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Network Convergence and Billing |
| Author: |
John B Aalbers |
| Title: |
Director Next Generation Solutions Business |
| Organisation: |
Intec Telecom Systems |
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208KB |
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| The merging of data and voice networks places complex demands upon billing systems. Voice telephony is billed by the duration of the call, data by the volume, and other services by the month and content according to its specific value. As networks converge, several operators and content providers may be involved in a service The activation of all the elements in a customer request and the settlements and billing is quite intricate, but today's billing systems are up to the challenge. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
The Leading Edge in Network Convergence: What Should We Plan For? |
| Author: |
Krishan Sabnani |
| Title: |
Senior Vice President Networking Research |
| Organisation: |
Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs |
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116KB |
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| In the future, we will have high-speed data and voice access, wherever we happen to be, over a mostly IP/packet-based network. Adaptive client terminals and servers will permit users to roam seamlessly across multiple networks with different technologies - LANs, WLANs, WiFi, or 3G cellular. Many user-friendly applications will be available. To control access, security, billing, and such, user data will either be stored in the terminal's SIM card or be accessible to network devices from a worldwide-distributed database. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Inclusion Is A Good Deal |
| Author: |
Miro Teixeira |
| Title: |
Minister |
| Organisation: |
Ministry of Communications of Brazil |
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376KB |
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| Digital inclusion is a government duty that makes good economic and social sense. The lack of voice and data access for lower class and isolated populations has forced governments to adopt universalization programs or find themselves on the wrong side of a widening digital gap. Brazil aims for Development with social and digital inclusion and has established universalization obligations for operators, a universalization fund for low payback projects, e-government initiatives, and plans to use interactive digital TV for digital inclusion. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
A Dream Team For Digital Inclusion |
| Author: |
Fredric Morris |
| Title: |
Editor-in-Chief |
| Organisation: |
Connect-World |
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16KB |
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| Using one computer to help another, load sharing, is not a new idea. Nor is the idea of connecting many computers together to work as one. Almost thirty years ago large mainframes - with less computing capacity than today's simplest PCs - were hooked together through their communications channels and some of the most sophisticated contemporary software assigned jobs in the queue to whatever computer had available capacity. Networked load balancing was a good idea then, but that was long ago and the hardware and software were primitive, inefficient, and prone to hiccups and glitches - they were just not up to the job. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
Manifestations of Convergence |
| Author: |
Mr Helmut Leopold |
| Title: |
Director Product and Technology Management |
| Organisation: |
Telekom Austria AG |
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144KB |
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| Digital communication technology lets one transmit voice, data, and images using the same network. This technical convergence is revolutionising the information and communications industries and driving economic convergence, blurring the boundaries between traditional ICT markets. Convergence has created new forms of communication that personalise mass communications and massify individual communications and is forcing regulatory convergence to deal adequately with these hybrid means of communication. To ensure interoperability of equipment and services, the ICT sector is striving to develop open standards. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Partnering and Outsourcing for Network Convergence |
| Author: |
Christoph Gärtner and Andreas Erler |
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Not available |
| Organisation: |
EVP Global Synergies, T-Systems |
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184KB |
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| Outsourcing transfers an existing company activity, including the staff that performs it, to an external service provider. This transforms fixed into variable costs and reduces capital expenditures. By outsourcing operations, telecom companies can rapidly provide customers with more and better, advanced services. Telco operators have long considered the network to be central to their business, but some now outsource it to partners to obtain quick access to technologies such as converged networks without the expense or delays of in-house. |
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