This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role …

force on 21 September 2017. CETA, that includes two Chapters affecting telecommunications markets, one on services in … general and one on telecommunications services, envisages amongst others to further open up service markets to foreign … telecommunications services can serve as a blueprint for a future WTO accord towards multilateral trade liberalisation. In answering this …

telecommunications services under an agreement negotiated through the World Trade Organization. Most participants in the agreement have … the arrangement represent more than 90 percent of the world market for telecommunications. The author reviews the …

) promised ostensibly to move away from markets characterized by monopolies and toward a world of competition and deregulation …With the creation and implementation of the February 1997 World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic … Telecommunications Services (the February Accord or WTO Agreement), the international telecommunications community has (at least on paper …

and sector-specific regulation on the one hand and conflicts between sector-specific regulation and competition law on the … instruments, and telecom regulation was interrupted by EU competition law. While the constitutional value of EU competition law … establishes its supremacy over telecom regulation, it is observed that the European Commission has over-stretched competition …