Latin America TRE Studies
The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society for Latin America and the Caribbean (DIRSI) has released Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) studies for Ecuador and Peru. Using interviews and a questionnaire administered to a statistically significant cross-section of industry stakeholders and experts, the TRE assessment traverses six dimensions of regulatory risk (market entry, access to scarce resources, interconnection, tariff regulation, regulation of anti-competitive practice and universal service) for both the fixed and mobile sectors. The TRE methodology focuses on the environment as a whole, rather than only on the regulatory agency.
Click here to download the TRE for Peru by Roxana Barrantes and Patricia Perez (in Spanish).
Click here to download the TRE for Ecuador by Hugo Carrion (in Spanish).
The Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) Assessment methodology was developed by LIRNEasia to provide a innovative approach to gaining insight on regulatory performance. Simply put, a necessary condition for good telecom sector performance is investment and investment decisions are influenced by perceptions of investment risk. Indeed, investment is highly correlated with sector regulation. However, regulatory performance is notoriously problematic to assess – especially in a quantifiable manner. TRE assessment thus measures the perception of risk, which is the primary driver of investment decisions.
The TRE methodology was first applied to the case study of Sri Lanka, followed by assessments in Bangladesh and India (these three studies are available in Stimulating Investment in Network Development: Roles for Regulators, 2005; more recent LIRNEasia TRE studies can be downloded from the LIRNEasia website). Using the model provided by these original studies, three subsequent studies were undertaken in Chile, Peru and Guyana – the first two of these Latin American studies were preliminary and did not use a survey for the study. The Guyana case study used the TRE questionnaire (and has been published in Diversifying Participation in Network Development, 2007).
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