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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
geographic_facet Africa
Mauritania
relation Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 71
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
author_sort Nair, Govindan G.
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
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