IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/telpol/v9y1985i4p281-290.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Regulation to deregulation: the telecommunications sector and industrialization : Evidence from the Pacific rim and basin

Author

Listed:
  • Snow, Marcellus S.

Abstract

Evidence from the Pacific and elsewhere suggests that countries deregulate their telecommunications sectors as economic development proceeds. Theoretical considerations support this, since arguments for (against) deregulation are mostly applicable to industrialized (developing) countries. Several such arguments are surveyed. Actual instances of telecommunications deregulation in Pacific countries are also cited to confirm this hypothesis. The scarcity and simplicity of telecommunications in early development stages favour cooperative, regulated solutions; as technological progress makes services more abundant and varied, competitive, deregulated approaches become more attractive.

Suggested Citation

  • Snow, Marcellus S., 1985. "Regulation to deregulation: the telecommunications sector and industrialization : Evidence from the Pacific rim and basin," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 281-290, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:9:y:1985:i:4:p:281-290
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0308596185900217
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:9:y:1985:i:4:p:281-290. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30471/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.