Are Cost Models Useful for Telecoms Regulators in Developing Countries?

Worldwide privatization of the telecommunications industry, and the introduction of competition in the sector, together with the ever-increasing rate of technological advance in telecommunications, raise new and critical challenges for regulation. Fo matters of pricing, universal service obligations...

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Main Authors:	Benitez, Daniel A., Estache, Antonio, Kennet, D. Mark, Ruzzier, Christian A.
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	telecommunication industries regulatory framework competitiveness developing countries technological capacity telecommunication rates pricing reforms service fees cost effectiveness capacity building infrastructure privatization monopolies information exchange access to data aggregation alternative use area asymmetric information benchmark benchmarking benchmarks blue census block census data center centroid classification competitive markets consumers cost minimization data collection data sources decision-making democracy economic costs economic models efficient regulation employment excess profits factors of production GIS income inefficiency information asymmetries input prices interface modeling multilateral trade networks opportunity cost optimization perfect information policy decisions programs radio realism regulatory policy resource allocation simulation telecommunications telecommunications industry telecommunications services telecoms telecoms sector telephone companies telephone services trade negotiations trade policies transparency undue influence universal service universal service obligations World Trade Organization
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21425

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Are Cost Models Useful for Telecoms Regulators in Developing Countries?

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