Liberalization and Regulation of the Telecommunications Sector in Transition Countries (eBook)

The Case of Russia

Ekaterina Markova (Autor)

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2008 | 2009
XVI, 216 Seiten
Physica (Verlag)
978-3-7908-2104-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development. For many years, there were state-owned monopolies in the telecommunications sector. In transition economies, they were characterized by especially poor performance and high access deficits, as telecommunications were considered to be a non-profit-oriented production process intended to support the socio-economic superstructures. As a result, the starting point for the reform processes in transition countries was quite poor performed public monopolies, functioned under completely different circumstances as the peers in the market economies.

The main question of this book is what the strategies for the successful future development of the telecommunications sector in transition countries are. The special focus is on Russia, the largest of the transition countries.

Inhalt

Table of Contents 5
List of Figures 8
List of Tables 11
Preface 12
1 Introduction 13
2 Trends in the Telecommunications Industry Worldwide, and in Russia in Particular 18
2.1 Industry Structure and Technological Developments 19
2.2 Current Worldwide Trends 32
2.3 Telecommunications Infrastructure Policy in the Socialist Command Economy 43
2.4 Current Developments in the Russian Telecommunications Sector 44
3 Theory of Privatization and Liberalization in the Telecommunications Sector 75
3.1 Basic Theory of the Telecommunications Sector 75
3.2 Theory of Monopolistic Bottlenecks and the Disaggregated Approach 80
3.3 Privatization in the Telecommunications Sector 85
3.4 Liberalization of the Telecommunications Sector 93
4 Theory of Network Regulation and Regulatory Policy Options in the Telecommunications Sector 98
4.1 Ramsey–Boiteux Pricing: The Second-Best Price Solution 99
4.2 Regulation of End User Pricing: Historical Developments 100
4.4 Regulation of Universal Services 114
4.3 Regulation of Access and Interconnection Pricing 108
4.5 Regulation of Service Quality 125
4.6 Positive Theory of Regulation: Regulatory Capture 128
4.7 Design of Regulatory Institutions 132
5 Telecommunications Role in the Economic Development and Sector Encouraging Policy Options 136
5.1 Modeling the Linkages Between the Economic Development and the Telecommunications Infrastructure in Transition Countries 136
5.2 Modernization of the Fixed Telecommunications Sector 150
5.3 Mobile Telecommunications: Instruments Stimulating Diffusion 172
5.4 Broadband Infrastructure and Content: Demand-and Supply Sides 185
5.5 Reform Processes Under the Impact of Politics and Institutional Modernization in Russia 201
6 Conclusion 205
References 213
Index 223

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions to Economics
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 216 p. 73 illus.
• Verlagsort: Heidelberg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Economic Development • Monopol • Policy Option in ICT • Sectoral Privatization and Liberalization • Transition Economics • Trends in Telecommunications Industries
• ISBN-10: 3-7908-2104-7 / 3790821047
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7908-2104-8 / 9783790821048