TY - BOOK ID - 14295853 TI - Liberalization and regulation of the telecommunications sector in transition countries : the case of Russia PY - 2009 SN - 3790821039 3790825735 9786611876685 1281876682 3790821047 PB - Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Telecommunication -- Law and legislation -- Russia. KW - Telecommunication policy -- Russia. KW - Telecommunication. KW - Telecommunication policy KW - Telecommunication KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic Theory KW - Transportation Economics KW - Law and legislation KW - Telecommunication and state KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Telecommunications KW - Government policy KW - Industrial organization. KW - Economic policy. KW - Development economics. KW - Regional economics. KW - Spatial economics. KW - Economics. KW - Development Economics. KW - Economic Policy. KW - Industrial Organization. KW - Regional/Spatial Science. KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Economics KW - Regional planning KW - Regionalism KW - Space in economics KW - Industries KW - Organization KW - Industrial concentration KW - Industrial management KW - Industrial sociology KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Social policy KW - Economic development KW - Spatial economics KW - Regional economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14295853 AB - Telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development. For many years, there were state-owned monopolies in the telecommunications sector. In transition economies, they were characterized by especially poor performance and high access deficits, as telecommunications were considered to be a non-profit-oriented production process intended to support the socio-economic superstructures. As a result, the starting point for the reform processes in transition countries was quite poor performed public monopolies, functioned under completely different circumstances as the peers in the market economies. The main question of this book is what the strategies for the successful future development of the telecommunications sector in transition countries are. The special focus is on Russia, the largest of the transition countries. ER -