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Telecommunications policy in India: The political underpinnings of reform

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In the mid-1980s India became one of the first developing countries to launch reforms in its telecommunications services; yet 10 years later little change had been introduced in the sector. Then in 1994 the government launched a new national telecommunications policy which has a considerable number of important features that are rather puzzling and uniquely Indian. This paper argues that the slow pace and uniqueness of India's telecommunications reform are to be explained in terms of the country's institutional arrangements. Radical telecommunications reforms move at a slow pace, take peculiar local twists or fall in implementation when (1) the state is highly permeable and vulnerable to demands from powerful, domestic interest groups that oppose changes in the sector; and/or (2) top government officials diverge and clash over the reform agenda, generally due to the head of state's lack of power.

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  • Petrazzini, Ben A, 0. "Telecommunications policy in India: The political underpinnings of reform," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 39-51, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:20:y::i:1:p:39-51
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    1. Liu, Chun & Jayakar, Krishna, 2012. "The evolution of telecommunications policy-making: Comparative analysis of China and India," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 13-28.
    2. Wen-Kuo Chen & Venkateswarlu Nalluri & Suresh Ma & Mei-Min Lin & Ching-Torng Lin, 2021. "An Exploration of the Critical Risk Factors in Sustainable Telecom Services: An Analysis of Indian Telecom Industries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-22, January.
    3. Ashutosh Jha & Debashis Saha, 2019. "Examining categorization of Telecom Circles in India using unsupervised k-means clustering on techno-economic indicators," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 46(4), pages 365-383, December.
    4. Li, Wei & Qiang, Christine Zhen-Wei & Xu, Lixin Colin, 2005. "Regulatory Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy and Private Interests," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(8), pages 1307-1324, August.

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