Liberalization and regulatory reform of telecom markets has emerged as a high profile policy issue. This paper analyzes how the multilateral system under the World Trade Organization can help developing countries in promoting their own information infrastructures. We focus on a specific "regime" issue that has attracted increasing attention in recent years: the extent to which the WTO should pursue a "deeper integration" agenda, using telecommunications and activities that rely heavily on telecommunications as a specific case. Die Liberalisierung und Reform der Telekommunikationsmärkte ist zu einem wichtigen politischen Thema geworden. Dieser Beitrag analysiert, wie das multilaterale System - unter der Welthandelsorganisation - Entwicklungsländern bei der Förderung ihrer eigenen Informations-Infrastruktur helfen kann. Wir konzentrieren uns auf eine spezifische "Regime"-Frage, die in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit erregt hat: In welchem MaÃe die WTO ein Programm der "tieferen Integration" verfolgen sollte, das Telekommunikation als spezifischen Fall betrachtet.
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