Markova Liberalization and Regulation of the Telecommunications Sector in Transition Countries

The Case of Russia
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-7908-2104-8
Verlag: Physica-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development. For many years, there were state-owned monopolies in the telecommunications sector. In transition economies, they were characterized by especially poor performance and high access deficits, as telecommunications were considered to be a non-profit-oriented production process intended to support the socio-economic superstructures. As a result, the starting point for the reform processes in transition countries was quite poor performed public monopolies, functioned under completely different circumstances as the peers in the market economies. The main question of this book is what the strategies for the successful future development of the telecommunications sector in transition countries are. The special focus is on Russia, the largest of the transition countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Markova, Ekaterina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;5
2;List of Figures;8
3;List of Tables;11
4;Preface;12
5;1 Introduction;13
6;2 Trends in the Telecommunications Industry Worldwide, and in Russia in Particular;18
6.1;2.1 Industry Structure and Technological Developments;19
6.2;2.2 Current Worldwide Trends;32
6.3;2.3 Telecommunications Infrastructure Policy in the Socialist Command Economy;43
6.4;2.4 Current Developments in the Russian Telecommunications Sector;44
7;3 Theory of Privatization and Liberalization in the Telecommunications Sector;75
7.1;3.1 Basic Theory of the Telecommunications Sector;75
7.2;3.2 Theory of Monopolistic Bottlenecks and the Disaggregated Approach;80
7.3;3.3 Privatization in the Telecommunications Sector;85
7.4;3.4 Liberalization of the Telecommunications Sector;93
8;4 Theory of Network Regulation and Regulatory Policy Options in the Telecommunications Sector;98
8.1;4.1 Ramsey–Boiteux Pricing: The Second-Best Price Solution;99
8.2;4.2 Regulation of End User Pricing: Historical Developments;100
8.3;4.4 Regulation of Universal Services;114
8.4;4.3 Regulation of Access and Interconnection Pricing;108
8.5;4.5 Regulation of Service Quality;125
8.6;4.6 Positive Theory of Regulation: Regulatory Capture;128
8.7;4.7 Design of Regulatory Institutions;132
9;5 Telecommunications Role in the Economic Development and Sector Encouraging Policy Options;136
9.1;5.1 Modeling the Linkages Between the Economic Development and the Telecommunications Infrastructure in Transition Countries;136
9.2;5.2 Modernization of the Fixed Telecommunications Sector;150
9.3;5.3 Mobile Telecommunications: Instruments Stimulating Diffusion;172
9.4;5.4 Broadband Infrastructure and Content: Demand-and Supply Sides;185
9.5;5.5 Reform Processes Under the Impact of Politics and Institutional Modernization in Russia;201
10;6 Conclusion;205
11;References;213
12;Index;223