1. Trends on Telecommunication Services for the Americas Region
Expert Group on cost model and Tariff Group
for Latin America and the Caribbean (TAL Group) meetings Guatemala City, Guatemala, 4 to 8 November 2002
Trends on Telecommunication Services for the Americas Region
Financing Strategies Unit

2. Determination of price of domestic telecommunication services, 2002 (Local and long-distance calls and interconnection)
Set by the State
Based on revenue requirements
Based of individual production costs of each service
Source: ITU Tariff Policies Database.

3. Types of costs on which tariff models are based, 2002
Historical costs
Current costs
Long-run market-based benchmark costs
Not applicable
Source: ITU Tariff Policies Database.

4. Financing Universal Service Domestic market, 2002
Cross-subsidies between international and national services
Reflection of access deficit in the calculation of interconnection charges
Setting of a USO mark-up on top of the interconnection charge
Receipts from a fund covering all costs
Receipts from a fund covering only discriminatory tariffs in favour of specific eligible groups and obligatory investment in unprofitable areas
Source: ITU Tariff Policies Database.

5. Time-frame for absorbing the access deficit, 2002 (Tariff rebalancing)
Less than three years
Between three and seven years
Over seven years
None
Source: ITU Tariff Policies Database.

6. Percentage of separate regulators in each region, 2001
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

7. Degree of competition by service, World, 2001 (ITU Member States)
BDT
Degree of competition by service, World, 2001 (ITU Member States)
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

8. Degree of competition by service in America, 2001
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

9. Degree of competition in basic services, 2001 by region
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

10. Regulatory Agencies in the World (cumulative)
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

11. Separate regulators by Region June 2002, Total: 117
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

12. Privatizations by Region, 2001 Total countries: 106
Source: ITU Telecommunication Regulatory Database.

13. Separate regulatory bodies, worldwide, 2002
Separate regulators
Source: ITU Telecom Regulatory Database.