The telecommunications sector today looks radically different from that 40 years ago when the IIC was formed. Then competition was a dirty word. The received wisdom was that competition was impractical, detrimental and technically impossible. The only feasible policy was to have one fully integrated fixed network owned by the government, often referred to as the Public Telecommunications Operator (PTO). As new technologies came on stream, they were treated as complementary to the fixed network to be run by the PTO.
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