Global markets and government regulation in telecommunications / Kirsten Rodine-Hardy.

"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 countri...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxii, 207 p. :; ill.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. 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.