This report develops an assessment framework and decision-making tool that, it is hoped, will facilitate evaluations of the effectiveness of telecommunications regulators in sub-Saharan Africa by the regulators themselves, World Bank staff, other institutions and their consultants. The...

The current policy of open network provision will be of significant benefit in facilitating the development of value-added services in the European Community. However, argues the author of this Comment, its effectiveness in achieving this objective will be enhanced if some degree of network...

Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures examines how current telecom infrastructures are transforming from dedicated networks supporting either voice, data or broadcasting services to converged networks that support a wide variety of communication services, often denoted as Next Generation...