Until recently, telecommunications (telecom) has been a rather arcane, obscure,and uninteresting field. In the last few years however, a technologicalrevolution in conjunction with radical transformations in the internationaleconomy have brought telecoms to the center of the political stage throughout theworld. Governments talk today about telecommunications, informationinfrastructure, and electronic highways much as they did about nuclearweapons, arms control, and foreign relations during the Cold War. This chapterbriefly explores the principles around which the sector functioned until recently.It discusses some of the key forces that drove reform in more developedcountries (MDCs), and it presents the differences in the reform process betweenMDCs and less developed countries (LDCs). It also describes recent events inLDCs telecom reform, and lays out the question around which this study isorganized.
Source: "Publication Information: Book Title: The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries: Privatization and Liberalization in Comparative Perspective. Contributors: Ben A. Petrazzini - author. Publisher: Praeger Publishers. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1995. Page Number: 11. "
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