This paper examines the impact of telecommunications liberalization in Africa on both sectoral performance and economic … quality plays a major role in bringing down prices and in improving access to telecommunication services in Africa … per cent translates into a 0.5 per cent increase in real GDP per capita. In Africa, multilateral commitments do not …

June 1999 - Empirical analysis of telecommunications reforms in 30 African and Latin American countries yields results … effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30 African and Latin American … operators not owned by the incumbent telecommunications provider-is correlated with increases in the per capita number of …

investment in telecommunications, a framework was developed to understand the factors that determine investments in telecom … cost. The results show that investments in the telecommunications industry are positively dependent on liberalization that … cost of investing in a country are important factors for investments allocation in mobile telecommunications industry among …

The availability of undersea cables around Africa has been transformed by a recent surge of investment, ending the … monopoly in West Africa and an absence in East Africa. Private investors alone and with governments have funded the laying of …