Global markets and government regulation in telecommunications /
In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries priv...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding global regulatory reform in telecommunications
- a paradigm shift; 2. Why change the rules? explaining liberal telecom reform; 3. When and how do countries change the rules? econometric analysis of the timing of establishing separate regulators and privatizing telecom incumbents; 4. Regulatory reform in the central Europe
- freer markets, European rules; 5. Northern European regulatory reform
- liberal reform northern-style
- 'regulation-lite'; 6. Conclusion: explaining change in a globalized world.