OECD Digital Connectivity Review of Colombia

Abbreviations and acronyms

ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGCOM	Italian Communications Authority (Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni)
ANACOM	National Communications Authority (Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações)
Anatel	National Telecommunications Agency (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações)
ANDESCO	Association of Public Utility and Communication Providers (Asociación Nacional de Empresas de Servicios Públicos y Comunicaciones)
ANE	National Spectrum Agency (Agencia Nacional del Espectro)
ANTV	National Television Authority (Autoridad Nacional de Televisión)
ARPU	Average revenue per user
BBC	British Broadcasting Corporation
BEREC	Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
Capex	Capital expenditure
CCTR	Technical Network Characteristic Charts
CDN	Content delivery network
CGI	Internet Steering Committee (Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil)
Comcel	Colombian Mobile Communications Company (Comunicaciones Celulares S.A.)
CONPES	National Council for Economic and Social Policy (Consejo Nacional de Política Económica y Social)
COP	Colombian Peso
CPI	Consumer Price Index
CRC	Communications Regulation Commission (Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones)
CRT	Telecommunications Regulation Commission (Comisión de Regulación de Telecomunicaciones)
DMA	Digital Markets Act
DNP	National Planning Department (Departamento Nacional de Planeación)
DPC	Digital Policy Committee
DSL	Digital Subscriber Line
EBITDA	Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation
EDGE	Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EECC	European Electronic Communications Code
EPM	Public Utilities Company of Medellín (Empresas Públicas de Medellín)
ETB	Bogotá Telecommunications Company (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá)
EUR	Euro
FBB	Fixed Broadband
FBB-FV-TV	Fixed Broadband – Fixed Voice – Television
FonTIC	ICT Fund (Fondo Único de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones)
FonTV	Television Development Fund (Fondo para el Desarrollo de la Televisión)
FTTH	Fibre-to-the-Home
FUTIC	Single ICT Fund (Fondo Único de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones)
FV	Fixed Voice
FWA	Fixed Wireless Access
GB	Gigabyte
GDP	Gross domestic product
GERAN	GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
GSM	Global System for Mobile Communications
GSMA	GSM Association
HBO	Home Box Office
HHI	Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
ICT	Information and Communications Technologies
IMT	International Mobile Telecommunications
IoT	Internet of Things
IP	Internet Protocol
IPTV	Internet Protocol Television
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IXP	Internet Exchange Point
KCC	Korea Communications Commission
LAC	Latin America and the Caribbean
LATAM	Latin America
MB	Megabyte
Mbps	Megabits per second
MHz	Megahertz
MinTIC	Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de Colombia)
MMS	Multimedia Messaging Service
MNO	Mobile Network Operator
MOCN	Multi-Operator Core Network
MSIT	Ministry of Science and ICT
MVNO	Mobile Virtual Network Operator
NAR	National Automatic Roaming (Roaming Automático Nacional)
NB-ICS	Number-Based Interpersonal Communication Services
NI-ICS	Number-Independent Interpersonal Communication Services
NTT	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
OTT	Over-the-Top
PGMC	General Competition Goals Plan (Plano Geral de Metas de Competição)
PPP	Purchasing Power Parity
PSTN	Public Switched Telephone Network
RAN	Radio Access Network
RIA	Regulatory Impact Assessment
RUTIC	Single ICT Registry (Registro Único de TIC)
SFR	French Radiotelephone Company (Société Française de Radiotéléphonie)
SIC	Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio)
SMP	Significant Market Power
SMS	Short Message Service
SPNP	Sender Party Network Pays
SVoD	Subscription Video on Demand
TIC	Information and Communications Technologies (Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones)
TVNZ	Television New Zealand
TVoD	Transactional Video-on-Demand
USD	United States Dollar
UTRAN	UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
VAT	Value-Added Tax
VATT	Value-Added Telecommunications Tax
VoD	Video on Demand
VoIP	Voice over Internet Protocol

Country abbreviations

For most of the charts, this publication uses ISO codes for countries or economies. The corresponding abbreviations are listed below.

 

ARG	Argentina	ISL	Iceland
AUS	Australia	ISR	Israel
AUT	Austria	ITA	Italy
BEL	Belgium	JPN	Japan
BLZ	Belize	KOR	Korea
BOL	Bolivia	LTU	Lithuania
BRA	Brazil	LUX	Luxembourg
CAN	Canada	LVA	Latvia
CHE	Switzerland	MEX	Mexico
CHL	Chile	NIC	Nicaragua
COL	Colombia	NLD	Netherlands
CRI	Costa Rica	NOR	Norway
CZE	Czechiac	NZL	New Zealand
DEU	Germany	PAN	Panama
DNK	Denmark	PER	Peru
DOM	Dominican Republic	POL	Poland
ECU	Ecuador	PRT	Portugal
ESP	Spain	PRY	Paraguay
EST	Estonia	SLV	Salvador
FIN	Finland	SUR	Surinam
FRA	France	SVK	Slovak Republic
GBR	United Kingdom	SVN	Slovenia
GRC	Greece	SWE	Sweden
GTM	Guatemala	TUR	Türkiye
GUY	Guyana	URY	Uruguay
HND	Honduras	USA	United States
HUN	Hungary	VEN	Venezuela
IRL	Ireland