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Publication Date: March 2007
ANALYSIS SUMMARY
Citing a fixed concession contract clause expressly prohibiting fixed operators from providing cable services in their concession regions, Brazilian telecommunications regulator Anatel has blocked Telemar’s purchase of cable provider Way Brasil nearly eight months after the incumbent originally struck the deal. The agency’s eagerly awaited decision negates what the carriers had viewed as a shortcut to distributing video content in Brazil. The carriers may have lost this battle, but we see a number of short-term solutions available to them, at least until a long-term change in regulation becomes a reality.
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