The WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications: a reevaluation

Chantal Blouin

Telecommunications Policy, 2000, vol. 24, issue 2, 135-142

Abstract: This paper discusses the benefits and the weaknesses of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Basic Telecommunications. The Agreement is aimed at opening national telecommunications services markets to foreign competitors as well as setting rules to ensure fair competition. Previous assessment of the Agreement raised three main shortcomings: the limited scope of liberalization created by the Agreement, the lack of precision of the regulatory principles of the Reference Paper and the weaknesses of the sectoral approach in comparison with a more horizontal approach to competition policy and domestic regulation. This paper challenges these views and emphasizes the importance of the Agreement and the Reference Paper on regulatory principles in particular.

Keywords: World; Trade; Organization; (WTO); Basic; telecommunications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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