Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania

A relative latecomer to telecommunications reform, Mauritania, a low-income country of 2.5 million inhabitants on the Western edge of the Sahara, embarked on tan ambitious telecommunication reform in 1998. At that time, this largely desert nation h...

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Main Authors:	Nair, Govindan G., Tintchev, Svetoslav
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK UTILITIES BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS INDEBTEDNESS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1620920/liberalizing-telecommunications-mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9787

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spelling	okr-10986-97872021-04-23T14:02:47Z Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY A relative latecomer to telecommunications reform, Mauritania, a low-income country of 2.5 million inhabitants on the Western edge of the Sahara, embarked on tan ambitious telecommunication reform in 1998. At that time, this largely desert nation had one of the lowest penetrations of telephony in the world. The immediate reform objectives were to ensure rapid improvement of telecommunications service availability through a) opening the sector to competition; and b) privatization of the state-owned telecommunications operator in Mauritania. Launched within an overall program of macroeconomic and structural reforms assisted by the World Bank, the telecommunications reform agenda faced several risks and constraints: 1) a virtual lack of institutional capacity and experience in privatization and regulation of utilities in a competitive framework; 2) the country's lack of name recognition, and poor investor perception of country risk and commercial attractiveness; and 3) with the onset of the East Asian financial crisis and increasing indebtedness of major European telecommunications operators in 2000, a highly challenging environment for attracting new capital into high-risk emerging market telecommunications sectors. 2012-08-13T09:32:23Z 2012-08-13T09:32:23Z 2001-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1620920/liberalizing-telecommunications-mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9787 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 71 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa Mauritania
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topic	BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY
spellingShingle	BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
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description	A relative latecomer to telecommunications reform, Mauritania, a low-income country of 2.5 million inhabitants on the Western edge of the Sahara, embarked on tan ambitious telecommunication reform in 1998. At that time, this largely desert nation had one of the lowest penetrations of telephony in the world. The immediate reform objectives were to ensure rapid improvement of telecommunications service availability through a) opening the sector to competition; and b) privatization of the state-owned telecommunications operator in Mauritania. Launched within an overall program of macroeconomic and structural reforms assisted by the World Bank, the telecommunications reform agenda faced several risks and constraints: 1) a virtual lack of institutional capacity and experience in privatization and regulation of utilities in a competitive framework; 2) the country's lack of name recognition, and poor investor perception of country risk and commercial attractiveness; and 3) with the onset of the East Asian financial crisis and increasing indebtedness of major European telecommunications operators in 2000, a highly challenging environment for attracting new capital into high-risk emerging market telecommunications sectors.
format	Publications & Research :: Brief
author	Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav
author_facet	Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav
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title	Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
title_short	Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
title_full	Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
title_fullStr	Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
title_full_unstemmed	Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
title_sort	liberalizing telecommunications in mauritania
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1620920/liberalizing-telecommunications-mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9787
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Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania

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