9/10/2012
TV or Not TV – That is the Question Eli M. Noam Professor of Finance and Economics Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) Columbia University CRC Conference, Colombia, September 2012 1
• Book on telecommunications in Latin america • CITI ACORN/REDECOM • the Columbia Institute for TeleInformation has taken 4 years ago the initiative to start a network of Western Hemisphere academic research centers in telecom and IT. We hope to collaborate with many of you.
• Tnx, CRC. Tnx executive director Carlos Rebellon villan • I’m Really happy here in this old city Cartagena • And I am Glad to be here in Colombia, the country • I come to you from columbia, the university. • Already, whenever I travel around the world as a professor from Columbia univsersity, people ask me, how are things going in bogota. So it’s 2 nice to bring the two columbias together.
Columbia Institute for TeleInformation Initiative • ACORN--REDECOM – Americas Communications Research Network • 28 university research centers from 16 countries 3
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Sequence • Impressive program • Impressive lineup of speakers and audience I planned to speak about OTT etc, but this seems to have been pretty well covered already And will be discussed again later this afternoon So let me mostly take this, a step further. And talk about ‘beyond OTT” and therefore also, “beyond the regulation of OTT”. 5
• Sequence se are witnessing and discussing may be simplified as • IPTV • OTT • And what is beyond OTT?
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