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Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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To help bring telephone service closer to Peru's poorest and most isolated areas, where people still had to travel some 56 kilometers on average to reach a pay phone, a pioneering fund offered subsidies to attract investment by private operators. Initial efforts led to impressive achievements,...
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Afghanistan has transformed its telecommunications from a fragmented system serving few people to a modern one putting … Afghans in touch with one another and with the global economy. The government moved quickly to approve a Telecommunications … and Internet Policy in 2003, and identified telecommunications as one of the two lead sectors for attracting private and …
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continental Europe have also adopted this model. Comparing the telecommunications regulatory agencies in the United Kingdom, the …
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Many governments, particularly in developing and emerging market economies, still doubt the benefits of competition in wireless services. But international experience shows that competition in any of the digital technologies brings substantial benefits to users and creates powerful incentives...
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capital markets: telecommunications companies are sometimes too big for local markets to absorb, and more active trading …
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telecommunications industry. The end of natural monopoly, the breakdown of the old pricing mechanisms, the increasing competition from … incumbent telecommunications operators -most of whose assets are holes in the ground. Many incumbents are responding by forming …
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The author looks at the impact of the changes in the telecommunications industry on regulation. As demand changes … the specialized telecommunications regulatory agency is probably a transitory entity that may eventually find itself …
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provision of telecommunications. This Note challenges the rationale for that preference, addressing four issues: First, is local … network competition feasible from a technical and cost point of view? Second, is telecommunications competition accepted by … critical issues of this transition toward a competitive telecommunications sector. …
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