Telecommunications Regulation Toolkit

The telecommunications industry has witnessed very rapid changes over recent years, with the explosive growth of mobile and other wireless services and the development of international telecom service providers. This is in large part due to liberalization policies that have opened the industry to competition. But liberalization does not necessarily mean deregulation, at least in the short term. The successful transformation of monopolistic telecommunications markets requires regulatory intervention to introduce effective competition.

Numerous independent regulatory agencies have been established to regulate telecommunication services. This toolkit provides a good introduction to the main regulatory topics the telecommunications industry needs to consider. In the long run, competition will be more effective in generating efficiency gains and regulation should be kept to a minimum.

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