Telecom reform: progress and prospects
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...Consequently, competition became a point of interest for the international telecommunications world and formed the basis for a country to design its reform (Melody, 1999)....
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...At the outset, these changes followed most international telecommunications reforms, aimed at restructuring PTT and separating the functions of market regulation and operation, and implementing liberalization (Noam & Kramer, 1994; Melody, 1999)....
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...Apart from the market change progresses in the USA and the UK, the telecommunications monopolies were generally accepted in other countries in the 1980s (Melody, 1999)....
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...Moreover, VAS competition would not threat the dominance of incumbent network operators in the whole telecommunications market and, hence, not meet strong objections from them (Melody, 1999)....
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...To adapt to the technology advances that required network convergence, a tide of enterprise mergers took place crossing national boundaries and spanning several industries, including telecommunications, computing and media (Melody, 1999)....
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...The value chains of the voice, data and media communications have been merged; horizontal convergence and some integration of the services, networks and terminals can be identified, and a single value chain with horizontal layers can be shaped (Figure 1b) [16, 24, 27, 28]....
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...For a comprehensive analysis of UK reforms, see Armstrong et al 1994....
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...For a comprehensive analysis of UK reforms, see Armstrong et al 1994 ....
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...One set involves eight indicators which were selected “based on data availability and their value in provoking thought about different patterns of development in knowledge societies” (Mansell and Wehn 1998, p. 36)....
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...See also Petrazzini 1995; and Melody 1997 (Ed.)...
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