Is telecommunications regulation efficient? An international perspective

Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos

“…Comparative studies of Canada and Korea have been conducted on various business-related topics, such as factors affecting the success of new product development (Mishra et al, 1996) and cultural differences in business operations (Al-Alawi & Alkhodari, 2016). Moreover, some studies provided meaningful insights by comparing the situation in the two countries related to the regulatory environment in telecommunications, broadcasting, and Internet services (Flacher & Jennequin, 2008;Wu, 2004), broadband infrastructure development (Frieden, 2005), and direct broadcasting satellite (Park & McDowell, 2005), and explaining the difference and its reasons to the regional, industrial, cultural, and regulatory characteristics of Canada and Korea. These studies revealed that it is worth comparing the two countries in the context of the telecommunications industry, and it can provide practical implications for stakeholders in other countries.…”

“…Moreover, the relative importance of various criteria and the domain may vary depending on the industrial environment of the country. For instance, governmental policies and regulations that have a significant impact on telcos' business activities (Bauer et al, 2015;Flacher & Jennequin, 2008;Hausman et al, 1997;Meena & Geng, 2022;Parsheera, 2018) may vary in scope or degree across countries. In this sense, the domains into which telcos in each country can enter, or their range of services or products, may differ (Chung et al, 2022;DLA PIPER, 2020), and their perception of the importance of each industry may vary accordingly.…”

Investigating the Regulatory Practices of Telecommunications Sector in Syria: The Case of Syrian Telecommunication and Postal Regulatory Authority

“…The findings showed that the most important point for a successful regularity process is the executive's subordination to essential checks and balances. Separately legal integrity plays a distinct role in increasing the efficiency of the telecommunications sector during the regulatory process, while freedom from corruption plays a prominent role in increasing the efficiency of the regulatory Authority Flacher and Jennequin (2008), highlighted the effectiveness of the telecommunications sector regulation process, as it first reviewed the concept of efficiency and dynamism in addition to the main policies used to achieve the set goals, distinguished between effective competition and industrial policy, and presented some suggested indicators that enable the evaluation of the sector's efficiency. These indicators are used to link regulatory policy with the economic performance of OECD member countries.…”

From regulation to deregulation in Chinese telecommunications market: A case survey of Xiaolingtong

“…Chen argued that the regulatory structure and the dynamic evolution of the practical regulation could reduce the expected effect of government regulation and increase the social costs out of regulation, which would ultimately resulted in regulation failure [11] [12] . Flacher & Jennequin concluded that asymmetrical exante regulation alone might be not necessarily efficient, and an exante policy could favor dynamic efficiency through integrating an industrial policy [13] . Yang, Wang & Geng had studied the effectiveness of the Chinese government's regulation to the grain market, and reached a conclusion that the absence of long-term equilibrium between domestic and foreign grain markets might be the premise of an effective regulation [14] .…”