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productive economic model, as asymmetrical and responding to the public’s need to
development among countries requires communication.
national economies integrated in their
production of goods and services. Support 2.3.3 Each country’s telecommunication
for such policies would make possible both service model is defined by competition-
the expansion of the domestic markets of less based private activity and the state, with its
developed countries and those countries’ regulatory functions and sectoral policies.
integration into the global productive system, When such factors are harmonized, greater
thereby participating in not only demand but benefit to the community is achieved. On the
also supply; other hand, where an imbalance is not
corrected by the market, the state might
e. Moreover, such policies should seek intervene to promote its national industry.
to generate legal certainty, a condition
required by the national and international 2.3.4 It is here where the intensity and
business community. The essence of such effectiveness of state intervention in
legal certainty is the adoption by the country regulating, controlling, and designing
of a path towards a process of sustained telecommunication policies should be
growth with social inclusion, which will evaluated. In addition to state functions -
provide a climate propitious to business and licensing, universal access/service, equipment
with investment security; homologation and type approval, user
protection, tariffs, interconnection, etc. -
f. The legal certainty required by some countries have begun to implement
private investors, and provided through laws, policies designed to activate the sector’s
regulatory frameworks, and contracts, also contribution to the country’s social and
requires both the implementation of clear economic growth.
policies and the existence macroeconomic
signals that encourage investment. 2.3.5 Accordingly, in those countries that
so decide, sector policies could be aligned
2.3 Public telecommunications policies with the national policies of development.
This would imply monitoring the sector’s
2.3.1 The process of privatization and evolution without intervening directly, but
deregulation of telecommunication services, rather offering the market information and
with the generation of a competitive market, guidelines on governmental priorities for
has led to a period of sustained growth of telecommunication polic ies so that the private
infrastructure and services. Along with the sector may choose to invest in projects that
development of new technologies, especially generate more employment and have greater
the Internet, a wide array of services has been social impact, benefiting from incentives that
developed for communities. the state might offer.
2.3.2 Although chaotic in some cases, the 2.3.6 To that end, telecommunication
dynamics of the sector’s development in policies might include developing strategies
recent years has been subject to market forces designed to stimulate demand of the sector so
and a significant presence of large that inputs are provided by local industries
international operators. In view of the public and to promote investment and access to
service nature of telecommunications, public financing. Such actions would encourage the
policies should be designed to promote sector growth of sector suppliers in producing final
growth, providing a framework conducive to or intermediate products that are competitive
private investment and, at the same time, in terms of quality and price.
regulating that activity so as to establish
equitable interrelationships among players
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