Telecommunication Reforms in the Asia - Pacific Region
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چکیده
Countries of the Asia-Pacific region have adopted a variety of structural and regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector for two reasons: (1) to promote the development of the industry, expanding basic service availability and (2) to further enhance the infrastructure, providing greater diversity of advanced telecommunications services. Where the Asia-Pacific region departs from the other regions is in the introduction of limited or controlled competition and the nature of ownership reforms. In most of the countries, the introduction of competition has been managed in such a way that growth of a national (i.e., incumbent) telecommunication operator is protected from direct competition or uncontrolled competition, in particular from overseas competition. Also many countries in the region have promoted the creation of innovative arrangements such as Build-Transfer (BT) schemes and traditional joint ventures so that the private investment is allowed in the sector while the governments retain majority control. In this paper, the general trend of the telecommunication reforms in the region is descriptively analyzed by reviewing the region's telecommunications legislative and ownership reforms and competitive market restructuring efforts of the governments in the regIon. This study has benefitted a lot from the support provided by the Public Utility Research Center. I thank Dr. Sanford Berg for his valuable comments. Luis Gutierrez also provided valuable information on numerous occasions.
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