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Abraão Balbino e Silva

Abraão Balbino e Silva

Competition Superintendent, National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL), Brazil

Abraão Balbino e Silva, is the Competition Superintendent of National Telecommunications Agency – Anatel. He is responsible for the Economic Regulation of the ICT sector in Brazil, including the competition policy, prices, costs and the monitoring of the economic issues involved. In ITU-T, he is Vice-Chair of the ITU-T SG3 and the WP2/3 Chairman, related to general economic and policy factors related to provision and cost of ICT services.

Before joining Anatel, Mr Balbino e Silva worked in the private sector as Project Manager in Huawei Technologies and as a Marketing Analyst in Vivo Celular.

In 2016 he published as a co-author the book “Broadband in Brazil: past, present and future”. In 2011 it was the winner of the SEAE Award for Economic Regulation, with the text “Remuneration of Mobile Telephony Networks”.

Mr Balbino e Silva is a Communication Network Engineer.  He holds a Masters in Regulation and Business Management from the University of Brasília – UnB.

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