I am delighted to present the first edition of our preliminary report on General Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1998. As we all know, over the past decade and since the publication of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) report on...

The dramatic pace of change in the telecommunication sector over recent years has been both exciting and extraordinary. Incumbent telecommunication operators have undergone ownership transformation in many countries, while many formerly insulated...

The countries in the African region are undertaking significant reforms to develop their telecommunication infrastructure, increase their low penetration rates and provide better quality service to the public. Most countries have passed or are...

In the past decade, many countries in the Americas region have attempted to privatize their operators, introduce some level of competition and establish separate regulatory bodies. Not all have succeeded in their ambitious attempts to reform, but the...

The telecommunication sector in the Arab States is dominated by state-owned monopolies in basic networks and services. In most cases, these monopolies are self-regulating and operate under traditional public management systems. Telecommunications is...

Countries of the Asia-Pacific region have adopted a variety of structural and regulatory reforms to achieve differing priorities for the telecommunication sector in their countries. These priorities have focused on creating an environment conducive...

Telecommunication sector reform has been a priority for most European countries in the past decade. In Western Europe, the reform agenda has been dominated by market restructuring which began in the 1980s: the corporatization, then the partial or...