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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Today the
<a href="https://gmicp.org/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">
<span>Global Media & Internet Concentration Project</span></a> is releasing three new reports - and updating two others - that portray recent development and concentration trends in a swathe of communication, internet and media industries:<span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 20.4pt;text-align:justify"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR"><span>-<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal"> </span></span></span></font><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR"><span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal">
</span></span></span><span>The </span><a href="https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-austria-2019-2022" target="_blank"><b>Austria</b> report</a>
<span>was prepared by: Sergio Sparviero; Mariia Aleksevych; Christian Wazner; </span>
</font><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Tales Tomaz</span></font><font size="2">; Josef Trappel, all
</font><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>University of Salzburg </span></font>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span>-<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal">
</span></span></span>The <a href="https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-chile-2019-2021" target="_blank">
<b>Chile</b> report</a> was prepared by:</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font size="2"><span lang="ES-AR" style="color:black">Guillermo Mastrini; Martín Becerra, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes;
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Ana Bizberge</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color:black">,
</span><span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black">Universidad Nacional de San Martín;
</span></span><span style="color:black">Ornela Carboni, </span><span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black">Universidad Nacional de Quilmes</span></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color:black">;
</span><span style="color:black">Agustín Espada, CONICET</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color:black">;
</span><span style="color:black">Florencia Sosa, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.</span></font>
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The <a href="https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-mexico-report-2019-2022/" target="_blank">
<b>Mexico</b> report</a> was prepared by </font><span lang="ES"><font size="2">Rodrigo Gómez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa; Argelia Muñoz-Larroa, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-CISAN<span></span>; Orlando Rizo Mendoza, Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa; Carlos Pérez Cerón, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco</font></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="ES"><font size="2"> - The previously released
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Australia</a> and <a href="https://gmicp.org/communications-media-and-internet-concentration-in-china-2019-2021/" target="_blank">
China</a> reports have just been updated and are also newly available.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">These follow editions we have published in the last few months on the state of media and internet concentration in India, Canada, Italy, France and South Korea. Others
will be out soon - including the United States,Turkey, Denmark, Portugal and Spain - with the end goal
<u><b>a library of regularly updated reports for all of the nearly 40 countries that make up the GMICP</b></u>.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">These reports are rich with insights into growth and concentration trends within media and communication sectors in these countries, as well as key regulatory developments.
For instance:<span></span></font></p>
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</span></span>Chile leads the continent in per-capita mobile and internet access, this despite high ownership concentration in these sectors and limited regulatory guardrails</font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - MVNOs represent a burgeoning presence in the Mexican wireless sector, with 9% of subscriber lines in 2023, catalysed in large part by the government's
<i>Red Compartida</i> public infrastructure project</font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Austria shares some similarities with the Mexican case in that Carlos Slim's subsidiary, A1, dominates both wireline and wireless in the same way that America Movil does
in its home country</font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - Familiar US tech giants dominate core internet sectors in all of these markets, although all 3 research teams report the same problem of a lack of transparency in data
disclosed by these companies<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Finally:<span></span></font></p>
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</span></span>Please review any of our reports and the underlying data sets <a href="https://gmicp.org/reports-2/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">
<span>here</span></a>. <span></span></font></p>
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</span></span>We invite other researchers to contribute their expertise to our efforts – please reach out to us
<a href="https://gmicp.org/contact-us/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">
<span>here</span></a>.</span></font></p>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="https://gmicp.org/" target="_blank"><i>Global Media & Internet Concentration Project</i></a>
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<div>Course Instructor<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"> -
<a href="https://www.ryerson.ca/next-chapter/" target="_blank">Toronto Metropolitan University</a></span><span style="font-style:normal">
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i><span style="font-style:normal">Vice-chair - Communication, Policy & Technology section -
<a href="https://iamcr.org/" target="_blank">IAMCR</a></span></i></span></div>
<a href="mailto:Ghoskins@ryerson.ca" target="_blank">Ghoskins@</a><a href="http://torontomu.ca" target="_blank">torontomu.ca</a><i><span style="font-style:normal"></span></i><br>
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