Competition and Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry in ...

Competition and Regulation in TelecommunicationsList of TablesTable 1.1: A breakdown of the telecommunications market _________________________________________ 2Table 1.2: Cost characteristics of local access technologies for telecommunications _____________________ 6Table 1.3: Direct forward linkages - Telecommnuications share of intermediate input costs for sectors of theeconomy (1997) – percentage of total intermediate input costs _____________________________________ 13Table 1.4: Structure of capital requirements for a fixed line network provider and an Internet service provider(2000) _________________________________________________________________________________ 13Table 1.5: Direct backward linkages – intermediate inputs into the communications industry (1997) –percentage of total intermediate input costs ____________________________________________________ 14Table 2.1: State of European Deregulation (1998)_______________________________________________ 21Table 3.1: Rollout Targets for Telkom in terms of License_________________________________________ 30List of FiguresFigure 1.1: A telecommunications network _____________________________________________________ 4Figure 1.2: Household expenditure patterns (1995)______________________________________________ 15Figure 2.2: Path of Regulatory Intensity ______________________________________________________ 22Figure 3.1: Proposed path of deregulation_____________________________________________________ 31iii