Telecommunications regulatory reform

The Regulatory Reform in the Turkish Telecommunications Industry

In the 1980s, Turkey initiated a liberalization and deregulation movement to introduce competition to its domestic markets and to transform the Turkish economy from an import substituting economy to export-based one. The aim was to institutionalize economic change through transition to the economic institutions of capitalism. However, the traditional institutional structure had resisted the pro...

Global Regulatory Reform in Telecommunications – the Importance of International Organizations

This paper asks when and why countries over 129 countries chose to establish new independent telecom regulators and over 109 countries privatized incumbent telecom operators during the 1990s. Using a Weibull multivariate hazard model, this paper analyzes the timing of establishing a separate regulator and privatizing the telecom incumbent in 184 countries from 1975-2004. While much of the conve...

Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries

Since World War II, developing nations have embarked on two massive changes in telecommunications policy. The first was the wave of nationalization of private companies that took place mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, and the second is the now ongoing process of re-privatization and, to a lesser degree, the introduction of competition. The purpose of this essay is to set forth the problems of con...

Embedding Regulatory Autonomy: The reform of Jamaican Telecommunications Regulation 1988-2001

Regulatory Reform : The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the FCC Media Ownership Rules

The Federal Communications Commission has regulated ownership of mass media outlets since the 1920s. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 abolished some of these regulations, changed others, and required the FCC to review its rules regularly and to repeal those no longer required. There is little opposition to the idea that media ownership policy should promote economic competition (to increase t...