Telecommunications deregulation strategies have been self-evidently different in Hong Kong and China due to differences existing in political and economic systems. This paper will provide an overview of contemporary trends in telecommunications deregulation in these two territories. Comparisons...

Open network architecture (ONA) has been developed as a technological solution to the regulatory problems of a multi-user, multi-operator telecommunications environment. The USA has been the originator of this concept, which may be paradigmatic for similar developments elsewhere such as open...

Albania has an average of only 1.4 telephone lines per 100 people. Yet telecommunications public policy reform is now increasingly viewed by the Albanian policy community as central to the country's future economic and political ambitions. This paper aims to explain how this precarious state of...

The global telecommunications marketplace has witnessed considerable and unprecedented changes in the past 25 years culminating in the transformation of industry structures, market-specific structures and the internal structures of incumbent telecommunications operators. Against this backdrop,...