New technologies and ICT regulation towards a paradigm shift?(Introduction)

From: Communications & Strategies | Date: November 30, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The ICT sector has undergone some dramatic changes in recent years, triggered by the development of new technologies and the convergence of existing ones, leading to a merging of markets and services. These developments affect traditional policy strategies, raising the question of how to deal with growing pressure to adopt converged regulatory regimes and how to successfully realize the potential of alternative network infrastructures.

Over the past few decades these dramatic technological advances have coincided with a first wave of reform in developing countries, which has ...

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