The paper concludes that although both in Brazil and India, the objective of the telecom regulatory policies was to … bring in privatization and competition, the variations in models followed by the two countries had led to sectoral outcomes …

The article discusses the politics of telecommunications' privatization policies in Brazil. In the first part …, telecommunications sector's conditions previous to privatization, the privatization policy and its results are outlined. In the second … part, the ideas about the economic role of the state underlying the debate about privatization of state owned enterprises …