Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation
Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation
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Author(s): Wavre, Véronique
ISBN No.: 9783319707440
Pages: xvii, 202
Year: 201801
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 178.02
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This study investigates regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. It explores telecommunications innovations in three developing economies (Morocco, Jordan and Egypt), with a focus on regional and European trends in telecommunications policies. Common knowledge suggests that the European Union and its member states are the main influential regulatory power in the MENA region. However, the empirical analysis of selected telecommunications regulations: universal service obligation (USO) and spectrum management, reveals that reforms are not always determined by European countries but may also originate from other developing countries, such as Peru and Chile. This finding attests to the rise of regulatory influence from the Global South, which challenges traditional transfers of regulations originating from more industrially advanced countries. Véronique Wavre is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Economics and Politics (SEPS), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She previously worked at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS), University of Exeter, UK.


She researches telecommunications policies and state control in the Middle East and Africa.


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