The new international telecommunications environment:

摘要

The regulatory regime for the global telecommunications market is undergoing dramatic transformation. As more and more national markets become liberalized the traditional system of cooperating monopolies is breaking down. This increasingly market-driven approach is forcing new institutional arrangements for the regulation of international telecommunications as well as in standard-setting procedures. The papers in this special issue were, with one exception, delivered at a Workshop on Competition, Regulation, Standards and Trade Policy for Information and Telecommunications Services, sponsored by the Global Economic Institutions Programme of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and supported by Coopers and Lybrand, the Department of Trade and Industry and the London Business School Regulation Initiative. The aim in organizing the workshop was to analyse the changes occurring in the regulation of telecommunications arising from developments in the general management framework of the world economy.