Southeast Asia: National versus Regional Development Strategies in theTelecommunications Sector

摘要

The purposes of this paper are to describe and analyze the telecommunicationspolicies and economic development strategies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nations and to determine how the formation of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation's (APEC's) Telecommunications Working Group has impacted ASEAN's development strategies. First, the history and formation of ASEAN and APEC are described, with an emphasis on the degree of cooperation in the telecommunications arena. Secondly, interrelationships within regional organizations and between them are discussed. Thirdly, individual ASEAN nation's telecommunications policies are examined to provide an understanding of how nations react to external pressures in their quest to develop.