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Privatisation et ouverture des télécommunications en Afrique subsaharienne : modalités et implications des réformes

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  • Patrick PLANE

    (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI))

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Throughout the world, deep reforms are being implemented in telecommunications networks. Sub Saharan African Countries are not immune to the dispute of the way the sector has been managed to date, dominated as it was by a technological stability and bilateral institutional arrangements between public monopolies. The factors that are structuring the new landscape of the African telecommunication networks, lead to partial privatization of the national incumbent operator, but also to a greater competition through the fixed as well as cellular mobile networks. All these changes should help to provide more services and to promote a much-improved quality. However this outcome requires the establishment of a greater autonomy and more efficiency within the regulatory bodies. Some of the main institutional questions to solve are addressed in this paper, not only the way the openness of the telecommunication has to be realized, but also the interconnection of the networks as well as the universal access problems.

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  • Patrick PLANE, 2002. "Privatisation et ouverture des télécommunications en Afrique subsaharienne : modalités et implications des réformes," Working Papers 200211, CERDI.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdi:wpaper:176
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