This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …

Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive … telecommunications sector. We pay particular attention to how the effects of interest groups on policies vary from more democratic to …

Telecommunications reform in recent years in almost all developed and developing nations created an opportunity to … telecommunications. Among the developing nations, the Indian economy faired better in attracting foreign direct investment in this sector … brought into the telecommunications sector of India have been addressed. Second, the emergence of the ‘new-economy’ and …

Many developing countries have given newly privatized incumbent network utilities, especially telecommunications … a significant decrease in the incumbent’s investment in the telecommunications network, payphones, mobile telephone …

This paper looks at the role of network effects in telecommunications markets. Network effects are said to exist when … positively influence users' willingness to pay. After the identification of network characteristics in telecommunications, the … incentive to invite entry to an incumbent telecommunications firm is discussed. For the case of mobile tele-communications, the …