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- Title: Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies (Book Review)
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 280 KB
Description
The twin forces of privatization and liberalization have been sweeping across the globe in the past two decades, crumbling the foundations of incumbent telephone operators while introducing a new era of digital connectivity for millions of consumers in developing countries. (1) Privatization (i.e., the transfer from government to private ownership) (2) started with the sale of shares in British Telecommunications in 1984 and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph in 1985 (3) and spread to over 80 developing countries by 2003. (4) Liberalization (i.e., the transition from monopoly to competition) (5) has had an equally dramatic impact. For instance, about half of the markets for fixed local and international telephone services in developing countries are open to competition and 130 countries have at least three competing providers of mobile services. (6) As a result of privatization and liberalization, foreign investors poured $194 billion into telecommunications infrastructure projects in 122 developing countries between 1990 and 2003. (7) This hugely significant transformation is the backdrop to INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT 2006: GLOBAL TRENDS AND POLICIES, issued by the Word Bank. (8) The book raises the following policy questions:
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