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Compared with the rest of South America, Argentina’s telecom infrastructure is one of the most advanced. Fixed-line teledensity is over 22% and growing, while in neighbouring Brazil and Chile, teledensity is under 21% and declining. Despite liberalisation, real competition has yet to develop in the local telephony sector, but the long distance market is highly competitive. The country has two regional incumbents, Telecom Argentina and Telefónica de Argentina, controlled by Telecom Italia. Telefónica’s acquisition of a stake in Telecom Italia has led to antitrust concerns and commercial conflicts. This report provides an overview of Argentina’s telecom infrastructure and regulatory environment, together with brief profiles of the main fixed network operators and statistical data.

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Key statistics
  
• 3. Telecommunications market
  
  • 3.1 Overview of Argentina’s telecom market
    
• 4. Regulatory environment
  
  • 4.1 Background
    
  • 4.2 Regulatory authorities
    
    • 4.2.1 Secretaría de Comunicaciones (SeCom)
      
    • 4.2.2 Comisión Nacional de Comunicaciones (CNC)
      
    • 4.2.3 Secretaría de Defensa de la Competencia y del Consumidor
      
  • 4.3 Privatisation of Entel
    
  • 4.4 Telecom sector liberalisation in Argentina
    
  • 4.5 Universal Service Fund
    
  • 4.6 Multicarrier system
    
  • 4.7 Rate freezes
    
• 5. Telecom network operators in Argentina
  
  • 5.1 Overview of operators
    
  • 5.2 Telefónica de Argentina
    
  • 5.3 Telecom Argentina
    
    • 5.3.1 Shareholding structure
      
    • 5.3.2 Telefónica’s share of Telecom Argentina
      
  • 5.4 Telmex Argentina
    
  • 5.5 Comsat Argentina
    
  • 5.6 IPLAN
    
• 6. Telecommunications infrastructure
  
  • 6.1 National telecom networks
    
  • 6.2 International infrastructure
    
    • 6.2.1 Submarine cable networks
      
    • 6.2.2 Satellite networks
      
  • 6.3 Infrastructure developments
    
    • 6.3.1 Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
      
    • 6.3.2 IP and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
      
• 7. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2008
• Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – March 2008
• Table 3 – Internet user statistics – 2007
• Table 4 – Broadband statistics – 2007
• Table 5 – Mobile statistics – March 2008
• Table 6 – National telecommunications authorities
• Table 7 – TASA fixed lines in service – 2001 - 2007
• Table 8 – Telecom Argentina fixed lines in service – 2000 - 2007
• Table 9 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1996 - 2008
• Table 10 – Public phones – 1996 - 2008

• Exhibit 1 – The recession of 2000 – 2002 (historical)
• Exhibit 2 – Global Crossing’s acquisition of Impsat Fiber Networks
• Exhibit 3 – Telefónica de Argentina at a glance
• Exhibit 4 – Telecom Argentina at a glance
• Exhibit 5 – Telmex Argentina – company history
• Exhibit 6 – Major submarine cable networks landing in Argentina

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