In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing …

This paper seeks to study the institutional aspects of the regulatory reforms undertaken in the telecommunications … sector in the European Union. It discusses the core functions of the telecommunications regulatory authorities established by … bodies. It also attempts to speculate on how the status and role of NRAs will evolve as telecommunications markets become …

Services (the so-called "agreement on basic-telecommunications"), the WTO is well equipped to prevent anti …-competitive practices in telecommunications. The paper first analyses the respective advantages of general competition rules and of sector …-specific rules to control market power in telecommunications. It then presents an overview of the rules that can be found in the WTO …

of economic regulation in telecommunications. It attempts to derive some lessons from the experience of four countries … achieve key objectives of telecommunications regulation, which are presented in the following section. Then, the paper … telecommunications …

media content by vertically-integrated incumbent telecommunications operators. As will be seen below, as new entrants …, incumbent telecommunications incumbents may find it hard to have access to premium content rights, especially when such rights … source of specific problems. This is why this paper focuses on incumbent operators, rather than any telecommunications …

This note analyses the competitiveness of different segments of the telecommunications markets in the five countries … balance between antitrust and sector-specific regulation have, on the whole, more competitive telecom markets. The market for … fixed local services is, however, a separate case. There, the balance between antitrust and sector-specific regulation …

-specific regulation appears to translate into a higher degree of competitiveness in the various segments of the telecommunications market …Among the countries that have fully liberalized their telecommunications sector, some have chosen to rely mainly on … effectively. A second note will discuss the same question in more details focusing specifically on the regulation of …