This paper examines the impact of telecommunications liberalization in Africa on both sectoral performance and economic …

question for the first time in Eastern Europe. We start to address the two relevant policy issues: modes of regulation, and …

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has yielded more litigation and less local competition than its supporters expected … framework for reform. The successful deregulations of the transportation industries and of long-distance telecommunications … telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and …

market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications ….C. Circuit recognized over twenty years ago: Complex regulation must still be credible regulation and any failure by the FCC to …

outcome for telecommunications reforms: privatization should be simultaneously carried on with liberalization …

telecommunications industry, which was held in May 2001. This document discusses issues such as the regulation of mobile termination … on - and off - net calls and mergers in the telecommunications industry. A common theme behind many of these issues is a …

opportunity costs. This paper provides empirical evidence in support of the importance of telecommunications sector reform to … put forward in this study establishes that privatization of incumbent telecommunications operators supports the … amount of telecommunications capital spending and broadband penetration. In turn, all these three factors maximize economic …

The reforms of telecommunication regulation in Mexico, adopted recently, are inspired by a mistaken diagnosis of the … state of affairs in the industry. Moreover, they introduce and reinforce a type of regulation that has proved little … likely consequence is that in the foreseeable future investments in the industry will stifle and Mexican telecommunications …

This paper analyses interconnection in telecommunications markets in the Southern African Development Community (SADC … approaches across the SADC region to promote competition, lower prices, and innovation. This is done by investigating the … regional experience in terms of the cross-country integration of telecommunications markets through international calls and …

innovation and lower production cost, entry of the entrant transforms the market structure into a Joint …