Options to Increase Access to Telecommunications Services in Rural and Low-Income Areas: Volume 178

By Arturo Muente-Kunigami and Juan Navas-Sabater

Telecommunications sector policy-makers and regulators have a wide range of instruments available to them that can be used to increase access to telecommunications services in rural and low-income areas. The paper provides a review of these instruments, evaluating them against a set of criteria. It then goes on to identify a number of them that are worthy of further consideration by policy-makers and regulators while demonstrating that the effectiveness of the identified instruments can be greatly enhanced by the establishment of a conducive legal, regulatory and institutional framework. The paper concludes by confirming that while no single instrument taken in isolation can provide a full solution to universal access, a mix of the measures identified can be devised to achieve specific policy objectives in a particular country environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821381407
• ISBN13: 9780821381403
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.8" x 9.7"