Communication networks and services have not reached either the poor or the rural people of Latin America and the Caribbean. The conventional answer to this problem had been to offer public subsidies to incumbent operators to cover the difference between tariffs and cost-recovery levels.
Hernan Galperin
Geeks, Cowboys and Bureaucrats: Deploying the Wireless Way
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Bar, F. and Galperin, H. (2005). Geeks, Cowboys and Bureaucrats: Deploying Broadband, the Wireless Way. A Sociedade em Rede e a Economia do Conhecimento: Portugal numa Perspectiva Global. Lisbon, Portugal. PDF: http://www.commons-sense.org/presentation/Bar%20&%20Galperin-2005.pdf
