Stages of universal service policy

Milne, Claire

doi:10.1016/s0308-5961(98)00045-7

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“…The answer to this question varies. In some cases, the goals themselves became obsolete, for instance due to technological advances, as in the case of attaining full geographical coverage in telecommunications (Armstrong 2002; also see Milne 1998).…”

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Regulating-for-Welfare: A Comparative Study of “Regulatory Welfare Regimes” in the Israeli, British, and Swedish Electricity Sectors

Haber

2010

Law &Amp; Policy

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The regulatory state and the welfare state are two institutions that are central to the analysis of the characteristics of capitalist democracies. The regulatory state is seen as focused on market failures and trust-busting, while the welfare state is said to shield citizens from the negative redistributive effects and externalities of the market. This article explores the relations and boundaries between the welfare state and the regulatory state in the electricity sectors in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Israel. It demonstrates the emergence of social policy within the context of liberalized, privatized, and (de)regulated electricity sectors. This article finds that the boundaries between the regulatory state and the welfare state are blurred in Israel and the United Kingdom but not in Sweden. These findings may imply a connection between the welfare state and the regulatory state, suggesting that a strong welfare state is needed in order to maintain regulation-for-competition.

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Regulating-for-Welfare: A Comparative Study of “Regulatory Welfare Regimes” in the Israeli, British, and Swedish Electricity Sectors

Haber

2010

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“…The above argument shows that the definition of universal service is not straightforward and varies between countries (Xavier & Cave, 1995;Milne, 1998). This partly stems from the level of telecommunications penetration and the political will of a given country (Maddens, 2009).…”

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“…This shows that there is an overlap between the views in the literature and those expressed by regulatory bodies across Africa with respect to these principles. Since these may have different meanings, depending on influences like economic conditions, telecommunications penetrations, and political will (Milne, 1998), we adopt the definition of ITU 2013 These three components constitute the underlying principles of a 'good' universal service policy (Oestmann & Dymond, 2008, ITU 2013. Thus, regardless of the different definitions adopted by countries, universal service policies should encapsulate these three principles in order to achieve optimal result in closing mobile coverage gaps.…”

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Impediments to the implementation of universal service funds in Africa – A cross-country comparative analysis

Arakpogun

Wanjiru

Whalley

2017

Telecommunications Policy

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The liberalisation of the telecommunications sector has undoubtedly contributed to the spread and adoption of mobile telephony across Africa but evidence also points to the fact that coverage gaps persist in some locations-mainly rural and remote areas-which are either unserved or underserved. In order to address this problem, governments across Africa have established universal service funds (USF) as their universal service strategy. Nonetheless, various studies have suggested that the problem of limited coverage remains unaddressed due, in part, to the poor implementation of USF. This raises the question as to why USF have failed to address the limited coverage of telecommunication services in Africa? We seek to answer this question by investigating the interplay between market liberalisation and universal service using a multiple case study approach with examples drawn from across the continent. We find that poor policy formulation limits the implementation of an effective USF model in Africa. In addition, inadequate stakeholder engagement, lack of accountability, inaccurate data, undue political influence and the narrow scope of universal service all impinge on the ability of USF to achieve their objectives. We, therefore, propose the need for future research to address these challenges and develop our framework to unravel some of the intractable areas of universal service such as determining what services should fall within the scope of universal service and how to prevent policy redundancy in a fast moving industry such as mobile telecommunications.

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“…There is a wide difference of opinion over the definition of Universal Services. There are various factors such as historic, legal, philosophic and cultural that can help explain such differences in approach (Milne 1998). However, general consensus over the definition of Universal Service includes:…”

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Modelling the Growth of Mobile Telephony Services in India

Sridhar

2006

Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective

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Quick deployments, competition, advancement in technologies and reduced cost of access have propelled the growth of mobile services in India. Predicting growth of subscriber base is critical for service providers so that they can plan their network investments accordingly. Accurate forecast of subscriber base will also help policy makers and regulators to formulate appropriate policies and guidelines for sustainable growth of mobile services. It is the objective of the study to forecast better the penetration of mobile services. We demonstrate the use of internal influence based logistic model and constant rate exponential model for predicting growth of mobile services. We indicate that though these models forecast with reasonable amount of accuracy the early stages of mobile service diffusion in the country as we are currently witnessing, comprehensive models which take into consideration various external factors that affect growth of the sector need to be developed.

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Stages of universal service policy

Cited by 32 publications

References 5 publications

Regulating-for-Welfare: A Comparative Study of “Regulatory Welfare Regimes” in the Israeli, British, and Swedish Electricity Sectors

Regulating-for-Welfare: A Comparative Study of “Regulatory Welfare Regimes” in the Israeli, British, and Swedish Electricity Sectors

Impediments to the implementation of universal service funds in Africa – A cross-country comparative analysis

Modelling the Growth of Mobile Telephony Services in India

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