Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications

Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Author: Kirsten Rodine-Hardy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107311020

In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.

Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector

Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector
Author: Bjorn Wellenius
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780821326060

Presents a compilation of information from a worldwide pool of experts on their practical experiences in telecommunications sector reform. This study compiles a wealth of information from a worldwide pool of experts on their practical experiences in telecommunications sector reform. It provides an up-to-date account of approaches to the major policy and structural issues and describes developments in Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe. The study also examines issues related to investment, regulation, and implementation. While each of the eight parts centers on a particular aspect of telecommunications sector reform, the study highlights several recurring themes and looks at a number of country experiences from the perspective of policymakers, regulators, investors, operators, the international development community, and other industry specialists. This volume provides valuable information on how to implement telecommunications reforms, offers insights into the effectiveness of these reforms, and identifies critical areas in which further discussion of related policy and implementation issues in this increasingly important economic sector.

ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia

ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia
Author: Rohan Samarajiva
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008-02-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book examines how theoretically optimal concepts actually get implemented in the hard terrain of emerging Asia. It gleans lessons from five Asian countries \2014 Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka \2014 based on their experiences with expanding ICT connectivity. It reports the findings of a cutting-edge 3000+ sample demand-side survey of telephone use at the "bottom of the pyramid" in India and Sri Lanka. It considers the problem of expanding connectivity from different angles: that of the user, the operator, the policymaker, the regulator, and civil society. And it sheds light on a range of situations and technologies, like telephone use in post-conflict regions of Sri Lanka, Wi-Fi deployment in Indonesia, and universal service obligations in India

Competition in Telecommunications

Competition in Telecommunications
Author: Jean-Jacques Laffont
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262621502

The authors analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competitionin network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools ofindustrial organization, political economy, and the economics ofincentives.

The Politics of Regulation

The Politics of Regulation
Author: Jacint Jordana
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781845420673

These changes, together with the general advance in the study of regulation, undoubtedly demand a re-evaluation of the theory of regulation, its methodologies and scope of application. This book is a perceptive investigation of recent evolutions in the manner and extent of governance through regulation. Scholars and students of comparative politics, public policy, regulation theory, institutional economics and political sociology will find it to be essential reading. It will also prove a valuable source of reference for those working or dealing with regulatory authorities and for business managers in private industries and services operating under a regulatory framework.

The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure

The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1995-04-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 030905091X

Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications.

The Irony of Regulatory Reform

The Irony of Regulatory Reform
Author: Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195054458

Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.