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An alternative perspective on Thailand’s telecommunications regulatory governance index

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  • Benjapon Prommawin

    (Chiang Mai University)

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This paper proposes a revised calculation of the telecommunications regulatory governance index (TRGI) for Thailand. It criticizes the work of Woverman and Koutroumpis (2011) and revises the calculation using the officially up-to-date data from International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 2012 and extended data in the Thai language from the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in 2013. The authors of the original work might not be able to access to these data in 2008 in which the governance body, NBTC, was just established in Thailand. As the result, the TRGI index of Thailand jumps from 0.11 to 0.33 by only the change of the period of the calculation from 2008 to 2012 using solely the ITU’s data. It increases to the range of 0.53 to 0.73 combining with the data from NBTC in 2013. By these new numbers, Thailand’s rank of the telecommunications regulatory governance is quite equivalent to the ranks of Singapore and Malaysia where the transparency of the governance is undoubtful.

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  • Benjapon Prommawin, 2013. "An alternative perspective on Thailand’s telecommunications regulatory governance index," The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters, Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, vol. 2(4), pages 33-38, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:chi:journl:v:2:y:2013:i:4:p:33-38
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    1. Waverman, Leonard & Koutroumpis, Pantelis, 2011. "Benchmarking telecoms regulation - The Telecommunications Regulatory Governance Index (TRGI)," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(5), pages 450-468, June.
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    Keywords

    Telecommunication sector; governance; anti-trust policy; economics of regulation; transparency;
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    JEL classification:

    • L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
    • L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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