Telecommunications Regulation Handbook

This new edition of the Telecommunications Regulation Handbook captures the new market and regulatory strategies to optimize investment in broadband networks and ICT services. As the following chapters show, many of the evolutionary and revolutionary changes in regulation that made possible the mobile miracle of connecting 5 billion users worldwide with access to ICTs, as well as over a billion fixed and mobile broadband subscribers, are still valid today. But for markets to truly flourish, regulators also need new, inspired regulatory approaches that are as innovative as the technologies they regulate. This new and revised edition of the Handbook focuses on examining these new expectations and identifying the regulatory approaches taken throughout the world to stimulate ICT growth in a converged environment and increase access to broadband services.