Report
This August 2006 paper is an abbreviated version of a comprehensive report resulting from a major study of universal access policies and programs including universal access funds in the 19 member countries of the Forum of Latin American Telecommunications Regulators (Regulatel). The study is a result of an agreement among Regulatel, World Bank (PPIAF), the Forum of Latin American Telecommunications Regulators and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and was undertaken in 2005 and the early part of 2006.