recognized in the literature. In a parallel fashion, policy makers around the world initiated various restructuring efforts … telecommunications sector and the Turk Telekom case, in particular, assessing the prospects for its much-debated divestiture, evaluating … international markets, and compares telecommunications privatizations of various nations. Additionally, the study reviews major …

examining the effects of the sequence of reform in telecommunications, particularly the effects of establishing a regulatory … authority prior to privatizing incumbent telecommunications firms. Consistent with current thinking, Wallsten finds that … countries that established separate regulatory authorities prior to privatization saw increased telecommunications investment …

it to the railroad, electricity, and telecommunications sectors in Russia, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland …

ownership has evolved as an effective substitute for regulation. Policy implications are drawn …. Recognising that regulation is itself costly, and that market contracting, ownership and regulation are partly substitutable forms … contracting, ownership and regulation than does state ownership. Regulation of customer-owned distribution (and transmission) is …

discusses the main policy issues raised by the need to adapt the regulation of the non-competitive segments of these industries … society; and iv) the design of regulatory mechanisms and institutions that encourage best practice regulation …

discusses the main policy issues raised by the need to adapt the regulation of the noncompetitive segments of these industries …

telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …