Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas

Broadband access is a key factor for economic and social development. However, providing broadband to rural areas is not attractive to private telecommunications operators due its low or zero investment return. To deal with broadband provision in rural areas, different governance systems based on pr...

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Autor principal: Castellano, José María - Autor/a
Formato: Text draft Doc. de trabajo / Informes
Lenguaje:Eng
Publicado: IBEI 2016
Materias:
Internet
Telecomunicaciones
Política de comunicación
Brecha digital
Subsidios
Infraestructura
Acceso en línea:http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/collect/es/es-005/index/assoc/D12212.dir/pdf_1370.pdf
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Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
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topic Internet
Telecomunicaciones
Política de comunicación
Brecha digital
Subsidios
Infraestructura
spellingShingle Internet
Telecomunicaciones
Política de comunicación
Brecha digital
Subsidios
Infraestructura
Castellano, José María - Autor/a
Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
topic_facet Internet
Telecomunicaciones
Política de comunicación
Brecha digital
Subsidios
Infraestructura
description Broadband access is a key factor for economic and social development. However, providing broadband to rural areas is not attractive to private telecommunications operators due its low or zero investment return. To deal with broadband provision in rural areas, different governance systems based on private and public cooperation have appeared. This paper not only identifies and defines public and private cooperation models but also assesses their impact on overcoming the digital divide in rural areas. The results show that public ownership infrastructure under private management policy has had positive effects on reducing the broadband digital divide and being applied to areas with higher digital divide; subsides to private operators providers only positive effects on reducing broadband digital divide; but public infrastructure with public management programs did not. The results, obtained using quasi-experimental methods, suggest the importance of incentives and control mechanisms in broadband universal service provision plans.
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title Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
title_short Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
title_full Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
title_fullStr Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
title_full_unstemmed Universal service policies in Europe & Latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
title_sort universal service policies in europe & latam : evidence on bridging the divide in rural areas
publisher IBEI
publishDate 2016
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