Liberalização do comércio de serviços: O caso do setor de telecomunicações no Brasil

Arbeitspapier

This paper describes the process of trade liberalization in the telecommunications industry implemented from the mid-1990s and examines how such a measure, which allowed foreign capital an important role in the control of operators, associated with the privatization program affected the performance and structure market this activity. As a result the investments increased from 5.2% of gross capital formation in 1996 to 10% in 2001, then decreased reaching around 3% in 2009, with foreign direct investment of US$ 41 billion. The number of accesses in services between 1996 and 2009 has increased in fixed telephony 14 million for 41 million, in mobile telephony 3 million to 174 million and in broadband 1 000 to 11 million. In the period 2005-2009, there was a fall in the real price of around 7%. However, not all goals were achieved mainly at the level of competition among operators.

Object Details

• Language: Portugiesisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Texto para Discussão ; No. 1599

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade
• Subject: Telekommunikation ; Handelsliberalisierung ; Brasilien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Miranda, Pedro ; Kume, Honorio ; Piani, Guida
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
• (where): Brasília
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91123
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