Telecommunications Regulation Handbook : Tenth Anniversary Edition
Communications are an essential means for reaching the, bottom of the Pyramid, and enabling individuals to reduce poverty and improve the quality of their lives. We currently live in a world in which more Africans have access to a mobile phone than to any other utility or infrastructure service. Thi...
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Communications are an essential means for reaching the, bottom of the Pyramid, and enabling individuals to reduce poverty and improve the quality of their lives. We currently live in a world in which more Africans have access to a mobile phone than to any other utility or infrastructure service. This widespread technological dissemination creates new opportunities across all segments of society, but also presents new challenges requiring adaptable strategies. Today's communications landscape is vastly different from the environment in which we developed the first telecommunications regulation handbook ten years ago. Competitive and open communications markets have created opportunities in countries that previously lagged behind. Competitively priced and technologically varied service offerings have allowed businesses to compete and thrive globally. However, there are still serious market gaps (such as providing widespread high speed broadband services at affordable prices and connectivity to remote areas), that, when coupled with evolving and converging technologies, pose challenges to policymakers and regulators. This new edition of the telecommunications regulation handbook captures the new market and regulatory strategies to optimize investment in broadband networks and Information and Communication Technology, or ICT services. As the following chapters show, many of the evolutionary and revolutionary changes in regulation that made possible the mobile miracle of connecting 5 billion users worldwide with access to ICTs, as well as over a billion fixed and mobile broadband subscribers, are still valid today. But for markets to truly flourish, regulators also need new, inspired regulatory approaches that are as innovative as the technologies they regulate. |
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okr-10986-132782021-04-23T14:03:07Z Telecommunications Regulation Handbook : Tenth Anniversary Edition Blackman, Colin Srivastava, Lara Blackman, Colin Srivastava, Lara 3G access to services access to the Internet back-office barriers to entry BASIC best practice best-practice blog broadband broadband connections broadband network broadband networks broadcast broadcasting business innovation business models business operations business plans business process businesses cable television capability collaboration Communication Technologies communication technology Communications technologies communications technology Competition Law competition policy competitive environment Competitive Markets competitive practices competitiveness components CONNECTIVITY consumer protection content production Copying Copyright customs customs clearance decision-making Digital digital age digital cameras Digital Content digital divide digital economy digital information Digital technologies digital television digitalization Dispute Resolution DVD e-commerce e-government e-mail e-services ecommerce economic activity economic development economics economies of scale electricity enabling environment enabling environments engineering entertainment equipment fair competition file sharing foreign investment fraud functionalities Functionality gateways global economy Global Information & Communication Global Standards government entities government policies government services harmonization ICT identity theft information services information society Information Technology innovation innovations Institutional Framework Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Rights international policy International Telecommunication international trade internet governance Internet services interoperability IP law enforcement Leased lines legal experts legal issues licenses LICENSING Literacy manufacturing market access market share material media mobile devices mobile network mobile phone mobile phones mobile service mobile services mobile telephony monitors NETWORK ACCESS network infrastructure networking networks new market New Technologies next generation niche markets open access penetration rate phone number photos political will postal services Privacy private sector productivity Protocol PTT public utility quality of service queries Radio radio communications Radio Spectrum regulatory agencies REGULATORY CHALLENGES regulatory environment regulatory framework regulatory frameworks regulatory mandate regulatory reform result ROM satellite search service provider service providers spam specialized applications Spectrum Management technical issues technical skills Technical Standards Technical University technological change technological development technological innovation Telecom Telecommunication Development telecommunication sectors TELECOMMUNICATIONS Telecommunications Authorities Telecommunications Authority telecommunications companies telecommunications industry telecommunications markets telecommunications networks telecommunications operators Telecommunications Policy telecommunications providers telecommunications reform telecommunications reforms TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION telecommunications regulator telecommunications sector telecommunications services Telecoms Telecoms Reform teledensity telephone telephone lines telephone service telephone services telephones Television television channels terminals text UNIVERSAL ACCESS Universal Service usability users video Voice over Internet Protocol voice telephony VoIP VSAT wealth creation Web wireless wireless communications Wireless Services WORLD TRADE Communications are an essential means for reaching the, bottom of the Pyramid, and enabling individuals to reduce poverty and improve the quality of their lives. We currently live in a world in which more Africans have access to a mobile phone than to any other utility or infrastructure service. This widespread technological dissemination creates new opportunities across all segments of society, but also presents new challenges requiring adaptable strategies. Today's communications landscape is vastly different from the environment in which we developed the first telecommunications regulation handbook ten years ago. Competitive and open communications markets have created opportunities in countries that previously lagged behind. Competitively priced and technologically varied service offerings have allowed businesses to compete and thrive globally. However, there are still serious market gaps (such as providing widespread high speed broadband services at affordable prices and connectivity to remote areas), that, when coupled with evolving and converging technologies, pose challenges to policymakers and regulators. This new edition of the telecommunications regulation handbook captures the new market and regulatory strategies to optimize investment in broadband networks and Information and Communication Technology, or ICT services. As the following chapters show, many of the evolutionary and revolutionary changes in regulation that made possible the mobile miracle of connecting 5 billion users worldwide with access to ICTs, as well as over a billion fixed and mobile broadband subscribers, are still valid today. But for markets to truly flourish, regulators also need new, inspired regulatory approaches that are as innovative as the technologies they regulate. 2013-05-01T16:53:07Z 2013-05-01T16:53:07Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13278 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank and the International Telecommunication Union, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research |