This paper describes the GBSI Initiative and analyzes its merit. It compares the GBSI Initiative with two outcome documents -- the "Tunis Commitment" and the "Tunis Agenda for the Information Society" -- that were promulgated at the WSIS2 Summit and subsequently adopted in March 2006 by the UN...

In the telecommunications industry, the ladder-of-investment approach claims that service-based competition (when entrants lease access to incumbents' facilities) can serve as a “stepping stone” for facility-based entry (when entrants build their own infrastructures to provide services). In...