The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance …

The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications … investment needs in electricity and telecommunications for the current growth scenario (3.6 percent a year) are of the order of 0 …

In World Trade Organization (WTO) accession negotiations, telecommunications is always a sector that receives close … telecommunications companies in Russia has been a significant issue in Russia s accession negotiations. The authors use a computable … general equilibrium model of the Russian economy to assess the role of telecommunications in the discussions regarding Russian …

resolution on telecommunications services and the first on services only. The findings of the Panel charged with settling the … Telecommunications and the Reference Paper that sets regulatory principles. Although these interpretations strictly apply only to the … findings. Telecommunications services originated in one country and terminated in another country are cross-border services …

The authors review the stylized facts on regulatory reform in telecommunications and its effects on telecommunications … of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America …

this gap, by 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, the … telecommunications investment, fixed telephone penetration, and cellular penetration compared with countries that did not. Moreover, he …

Infrastructure industries-including telecommunications, electricity, water, and gas-underwent massive structural … an extensive survey of telecommunications and electricity regulators in developing countries. The authors describe the … surveys and the resulting database. The database of telecommunications regulations includes 178 variables on regulatory …

By the end of the 1990s, most industrial and many developing countries had liberalized their telecommunications markets … its telecommunications sector as public property. The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications set the policy, enforced … government of Algeria laid the foundation for sustainable growth in the telecommunications sector. …

The authors examine the liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries with a view to … round of telecommunications negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The new round therefore … restrictions. Since quantitative restrictions on the number of telecommunications service suppliers are pervasive, deepened GATS …

The paper documents the case of Uganda's telecommunications reform. Uganda is one of only two countries in Africa that … decided to privatize telecommunications in a competitive framework by selling a second national operator license. The authors …