Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications

the long version

"This book shows the surprising ways in which globalization has led to the spread of liberal reforms in the telecommunications sector around the world"-- "In recent years, liberalization, privatization, and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time?"--