Are Cost Models Useful for Telecoms Regulators in Developing Countries?

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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