Streamlining and Privatization Prices in the Telecommunications Industry

Telecommunications Privatization: evidence and some lessons

The privatization of state-owned telecommunication companies began in Asia in Japan in the 1980s and gathered pace during the 1990s. To judge the results requires a prior understanding of the aims and objectives of privatization and even an agreed definition of privatization. In its widest context, privatization can refer to a range of policies to embrace private sector capital in the developme...

Does Sequencing Matter? Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms

The question of the most effective order of reforming state-owned industries has been hotly debated over the years. In the early 1990s, many western advisers encouraged Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union to privatize firms quickly under the assumption that market institutions would develop once firms were privately owned. Thinking since then has emphasized the importance of ...

Regulation and Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry

This paper aims to introduce issues that relate regulation and innovation in the telecommunications industry. We try to address the following question: which types of regulatory schemes are likely to promote innovation in a fast-growing telecommunications industry? The first section analyses ex ante control by sector specific regulation and ex post control by competition policies. The second se...

Collective Dominance and the telecommunications industry

Dynamic Credit Risk in the Telecommunications Industry

Increasing consumer debt levels across Europe have had a considerable effect on the telecommunications industry, especially in the post-pay sector. This, combined with product proliferation, greater product complexity, market consolidation and declining subscriber growth in many key economies, has created several significant challenges for the industry. Telecom service providers have typically ...