The WTO Telecom Agreement! Results and Next Steps Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U. S. House of Representatives |
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| Editor:
| Tauzin, W. J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7881-4968-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
| Publisher: | DIANE Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Hearing on the World Trade Organizations' (WTO) Telecom Agreement. One month ago the WTO concluded an historic agreement in which 69 countries committed to open their telecom markets to competition and to foreign investment. All but 4 of these countries committed to pro-competitive regulatory principles that will govern the provision of basic telecom services. The pro-competition principles include competition safeguards, the right to interconnect, competitively neutral universal...
More DescriptionHearing on the World Trade Organizations' (WTO) Telecom Agreement. One month ago the WTO concluded an historic agreement in which 69 countries committed to open their telecom markets to competition and to foreign investment. All but 4 of these countries committed to pro-competitive regulatory principles that will govern the provision of basic telecom services. The pro-competition principles include competition safeguards, the right to interconnect, competitively neutral universal service rules, publicly available licensing criteria, independent regulators and nondiscriminatory allocation of scarce resources. This agreement was modeled after U.S. telecom policies.