Competition in the Telecommunications Industry: A New Global Paradigm and its Limits
本文追踪美国和英国作为先行者的经验，分析电信行业竞争范式的假设、效果和预期收益，并指出后发国家可能面临不同结果，质疑所有国家应遵循相同电信政策路径的假设。
The ascendancy of competition in the telecommunications industry suggests the emergence of a new public policy paradigm. By tracing the progress of two first movers – the United States and the United Kingdom – the technological, industrial and economic pressures for change can be observed. In this paper we present the underlying assumptions, effects and expected benefits of the competitive paradigm. We argue, however, that the outcomes experienced by early adopters of this paradigm may not be the same for later entrants. Evidence from other industries, economic development theory, and social equity literature questions the assumption that all nations should progress along identical telecommunications policy paths.