Getting a Dial Tone
Getting a Dial Tone

Author: Lorraine Carlos Salazar

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9812303820

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Analyses the telecom reform process in Malaysia and the Philippines. Looks at the institutions and actors that were the driving force behind these changes, and examines state capacity, market reform, and rent-seeking in the two countries.

Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector
Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector

Author: Bjorn Wellenius

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 9780821326060

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Presents a compilation of information from a worldwide pool of experts on their practical experiences in telecommunications sector reform. This study compiles a wealth of information from a worldwide pool of experts on their practical experiences in telecommunications sector reform. It provides an up-to-date account of approaches to the major policy and structural issues and describes developments in Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe. The study also examines issues related to investment, regulation, and implementation. While each of the eight parts centers on a particular aspect of telecommunications sector reform, the study highlights several recurring themes and looks at a number of country experiences from the perspective of policymakers, regulators, investors, operators, the international development community, and other industry specialists. This volume provides valuable information on how to implement telecommunications reforms, offers insights into the effectiveness of these reforms, and identifies critical areas in which further discussion of related policy and implementation issues in this increasingly important economic sector.

Telecommunications Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region
Telecommunications Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region

Author: Allan Brown

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005-02-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781781958360

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This book attempts to draw lessons from the experiences of developed as well as developing countries in carrying out telecommunications reform. Contributors come from academia, as well as from stakeholders in telecommunications policy in a dozen countries, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region. Globally, the telecommunications industry is undergoing major changes: technological advances in the form of a vast number of new digitised services, ownership shifts as state-owned carriers in many countries become fully or partly privatized, and a general transition from monopolistic to more competitive market environments. The economic and regulatory experiences derived from these changes are explored and analyzed using the USA, the UK, Australia and Singapore to represent developed and newly industrialized countries, and China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as examples of developing countries. The conclusions outlined in this timely volume hold important lessons for these as well as for other countries.

Telecommunications in Asia
Telecommunications in Asia

Author: John Ure

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9789622093836

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This book provides searching analysis and a detailed and comprehensive account of telecommunications in the developing economies of Southeast and East Asia.

From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand
From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand

Author: Irene Wu

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0804779805

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From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand uses telecommunications policy as a window to examine major contradictions in China's growth as an economic and political superpower. While China policy analysts wonder why the government occasionally restrains growth and raises prices, technologists marvel at how the telecommunications industry continues to grow enormously despite constraints and unpredictability in the market. Frustration is pervasive in the business environment, where regulations are constantly changing. This book provides six policy-focused case studies, each centered on a question with implications for telecome stakeholders, such as: Who is the regulator?Who are the regulated? Which foreigners can enter China, thereby regulating wholesale prices, setting consumer prices, and introducing Internet and innovative technologies? These cases explain the government's liberal and conservative approach toward reform, the policies that both promote and constrain business, and the major hurdles that lie ahead in telecommunications reform.

2009 Information and Communications for Development
2009 Information and Communications for Development

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0821376063

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Over the last decade, information and communication technologies (ICT) have been increasingly used to achieve development goals. Developing countries, including poorer ones, have enjoyed rapid technological progress to help pull millions of people out of poverty. ICTs help transform economic and social activities for firms, governments and citizens. Information and Communication for Development 2009: Scaling Up Impact, the second issue of the World Bank's IC4D series, focuses on the effect of increased access to advanced ICT services and development of a vibrant IT sector on sustaining growth.

Asian Economic and Political Issues
Asian Economic and Political Issues

Author: Frank H. Columbus

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781590337646

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It is predicted by some observers that the 21st century will be remembered as the 'Asian Century'. Many of the countries in the region seem to be able to take the economic and trade baton when one of the others experience problems. The region, in general, continues to grow economically, politically and militarily. The articles presented in this book examine the current political and economic situations in nations across Asia, particularly focusing on economic developments. Contents: Preface; The Challenge of Removing Administrative Barriers to FDI in China; Negative Externality, Tacit Bargaining and Cigarette Demand: The Case of Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Japan; Modelling Development Control of Residential Development: A Probit Analysis of Rent Seeking and Policy Autonomy in Town Planning in Hong Kong; Social(ist) Capital: Does it Pay? The Institutional Impact on Conditions and Consequences of Access to Social Capital: the Case of the Former GDR; The Role of Foreign Investment in Guangdong's Economic Development; Natural Disasters and Long-run Economic Growth in Asia and Around the World; The Role of Urban Policy in the Battle against Poverty: The Experience of the Philippines;