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spelling okr-10986-110142021-04-23T14:02:53Z Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007 Izaguirre, Ada Karina Perard, Edouard COMPANY MANAGEMENT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMICS EMERGING MARKETS HOLDING INVESTMENT COMMITMENTS INVESTMENT GROWTH LICENSE LICENSE FEE LICENSES LOCAL STOCK EXCHANGE MOBILE ACCESS MOBILE SERVICE PHYSICAL ASSETS PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PORTFOLIO PRIVATE EQUITY RESULT TELECOM TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY TELEPHONE TELEPHONE NETWORK TELEPHONE SERVICES URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL VOIP This note states that investment commitments to telecommunications projects with private participation in low- and middle-income countries amounted to US$75 billion in 2007, according to just-released data from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database. That marked a new peak for the 1990-2007 periods. In 2007, 29 telecommunications projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in 28 low- and middle-income countries. Of these projects, 23 were greenfield merchant projects, involving investment of US$3.1 billion, and 6 were divestitures, with US$1.4 billion. Previously implemented greenfield projects accounted for another US$46.9 billion, and previously divested companies for US$23.6 billion. Four telecommunications projects were canceled or became distressed in 2007, bringing the total number to 42. These 42 contracts represent 5 percent of all telecommunications projects and 4 percent of investment commitments during 1990-2007. The report concludes, no telecommunications projects were concluded in 2007. 2012-08-13T13:53:26Z 2012-08-13T13:53:26Z 2008-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/10266932/investment-commitments-telecommunications-reached-new-peak-2007-investment-commitments-telecommunications-reached-new-peak-2007 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11014 English PPI Data Update; Note No. 12 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research
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topic COMPANY MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMICS
EMERGING MARKETS
HOLDING
INVESTMENT COMMITMENTS
INVESTMENT GROWTH
LICENSE
LICENSE FEE
LICENSES
LOCAL STOCK EXCHANGE
MOBILE ACCESS
MOBILE SERVICE
PHYSICAL ASSETS
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
PORTFOLIO
PRIVATE EQUITY
RESULT
TELECOM
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE NETWORK
TELEPHONE SERVICES
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL
VOIP
spellingShingle COMPANY MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMICS
EMERGING MARKETS
HOLDING
INVESTMENT COMMITMENTS
INVESTMENT GROWTH
LICENSE
LICENSE FEE
LICENSES
LOCAL STOCK EXCHANGE
MOBILE ACCESS
MOBILE SERVICE
PHYSICAL ASSETS
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
PORTFOLIO
PRIVATE EQUITY
RESULT
TELECOM
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE NETWORK
TELEPHONE SERVICES
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL
VOIP
Izaguirre, Ada Karina
Perard, Edouard
Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007
relation PPI Data Update; Note No. 12
description This note states that investment commitments to telecommunications projects with private participation in low- and middle-income countries amounted to US$75 billion in 2007, according to just-released data from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database. That marked a new peak for the 1990-2007 periods. In 2007, 29 telecommunications projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in 28 low- and middle-income countries. Of these projects, 23 were greenfield merchant projects, involving investment of US$3.1 billion, and 6 were divestitures, with US$1.4 billion. Previously implemented greenfield projects accounted for another US$46.9 billion, and previously divested companies for US$23.6 billion. Four telecommunications projects were canceled or became distressed in 2007, bringing the total number to 42. These 42 contracts represent 5 percent of all telecommunications projects and 4 percent of investment commitments during 1990-2007. The report concludes, no telecommunications projects were concluded in 2007.
format Publications & Research :: Brief
author Izaguirre, Ada Karina
Perard, Edouard
author_facet Izaguirre, Ada Karina
Perard, Edouard
author_sort Izaguirre, Ada Karina
title Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007
title_short Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007
title_full Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007
title_fullStr Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007
title_full_unstemmed Investment Commitments to Telecommunications Reached a New Peak in 2007
title_sort investment commitments to telecommunications reached a new peak in 2007
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/10266932/investment-commitments-telecommunications-reached-new-peak-2007-investment-commitments-telecommunications-reached-new-peak-2007
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