A influência da regulamentação na formação do mercado de Telecom no Brasil

Abstract

In the late two decades, the telecommunications sector passed through great transformations. On the one hand, the advent of the microelectronics base has provoked a technological revolution in the telecommunications industry, which resulted in new services, new transmission and switching equipment and the convergence with others segments of the electronic complex. On the other hand, a set of institutional and regulatory changes introduced in some developed countries, has brought important modifications in the organization of the sector all over the world. At the same time, with the increasing internationalization and integration processes between national economies (the well known globalization process), the telecommunications sector became the essential infrastructure for the participation of citizens, firms, regions and countries in the new international environment. The telecommunications industry is changing due to regulatory reasons and for emerging technologies that transformed the industry framework. Regulatory changes facilitate the privatization wave that happened in the end of the 1990 s, fostering competition in the sector. The technology convergence of telephony, information technology, television and internet, creates a new paradigm for this market. The market reconfiguration leads to acquisitions and mergers, motivated by the economy of scale necessary to bare the high fixed costs of technological infrastructure.