Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data … single market in the European Union is impeded by absent or imperfect regulation conducted at the national level, which fails … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …

What is the efficient cost of providing telecommunications services to a certain area or type of customer? As …

This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that 1) strong regulatory substance … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; 2) competition and privatization reduces …

regulation has had on telecommunications market in Latin America …I empirically examine the impact of the liberalization and regulatory process on the Latin American telecommunications … associated with teledensity and operating efficiency while competition and price cap regulation are strongly associated with …

services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States …Since 1997, the U.S. government has attempted to use the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on telecommunications … took the position in 1997 that the WTO telecommunications agreement requires its signatory nations to follow the practices …

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires that telephone service be available in high-cost areas at rates that are …

examining the effects of the sequence of reform in telecommunications, particularly the effects of establishing a regulatory … authority prior to privatizing incumbent telecommunications firms. Consistent with current thinking, Wallsten finds that … countries that established separate regulatory authorities prior to privatization saw increased telecommunications investment …

This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that (1) strong regulatory substance … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; (2) competition and privatization reduces …

To increase competition in local telephone markets, the 1996 Telecommunications Act required incumbent firms to lease …