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International trade in telecommunications services: an economic perspective

Posted in: Reports / Papers

By Henry Ergas
January 13, 2000

This paper is structured around six propositions. These are: Historically, international telecommunications services have been provided cooperatively by national telecommunications entities each supplying service on a monopoly basis within its national territory. While these cooperative arrangements have made some sense as a means of reducing transactions costs, they have been vulnerable to severe distortions, notably in terms of the process of international settlement... more. (pdf, size 77kb)