wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …

This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role … of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as … telecom regimes of selected Asian countries, and of the commitments these countries made in the recent GATS negotiations. The …

telecommunications services can serve as a blueprint for a future WTO accord towards multilateral trade liberalisation. In answering this … revision of the WTO rules in the area of telecommunications services. Is CETA a major step in the direction of further …In February 1997 WTO members signed the Fourth protocol, which, for the first time, determined a set of international …

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …

This paper examines the impact of telecommunications liberalization in Africa on both sectoral performance and economic … growth. Besides unilateral measures, we account for WTO commitments fostering the credibility of reforms. Actual regulatory … reflect recent reforms. However, at the global level, adherence to the WTO Reference Paper entails lower prices. …