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Telecommunications and WTO discipline. An assessment of the WTO agreement on telecommunication services

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  • Fredebeul-Krein, Markus
  • Freytag, Andreas

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The paper analyses the results of the WTO agreement on basic telecommunication services. Starting with a discussion of the economic consequences of the internationalisation of the markets for telecommunication services, we argue that various requirements have to be met by an international framework agreement on telecommunications. By allowing foreign firms to enter domestic markets, the WTO accord is a major step in the direction of liberalising national telecommunication markets. However, its main shortcoming is that member countries are not obliged to apply most-favoured-nation treatment to all other members, and that commitments on national regulatory policies are rather vague. They are not detailed enough to make competitive market access become a reality.

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  • Fredebeul-Krein, Markus & Freytag, Andreas, 1997. "Telecommunications and WTO discipline. An assessment of the WTO agreement on telecommunication services," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 21(6), pages 477-491, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:21:y:1997:i:6:p:477-491
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    1. Megan Emfosi Meena & Jiaying Geng, 2022. "Dynamic Competition in Telecommunications: A Systematic Literature Review," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, April.
    2. Matthias Bauer & Andreas Freytag, 2013. "Cumulative Benefits from Trade Liberalization for the South African Economy," Jena Economics Research Papers 2013-036, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
    3. Fredebeul-Krein, Markus, 2019. "The CETA-agreement on telecommunication services – A blueprint for a future WTO accord in multilateral trade liberalisation?," 30th European Regional ITS Conference, Helsinki 2019 224114, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    4. Fredebeul-Krein, Markus, 2016. "Towards trade facilitation via regulatory convergence: An analysis of the TTIP chapter on Electronic Communications," 27th European Regional ITS Conference, Cambridge (UK) 2016 148668, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).

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