Acesso universal ao sistema de telefonia fixa no Brasil: esquemas alternativos de financiamento e avaliação dos impactos distributivos sobre o bem-estar das famílias

Abstract

Currently the information infrastructure acquires each time more importance, given that it is seen as a trigger to speed up social and economic transformation. This infrastructure has as the one of its basic inputs the access to the telecommunication system, mainly the system of fixed telephony. The increase in the number users connected to that system is essential to allow the information infrastructure to revert to the society all its potential benefits. In Leite Filho (2000), it is shown that universalization of access of the fixed telephony in Brazil causes a positive impact on the society. In this direction, this study intends to evaluate if for the families that make up the Brazilian society such result is maintained. The methodology employed was equivalent variation. The results show that the impact of universalization on the families is positive.