IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/telpol/v20y1996i4p239-242.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

International accounting rates. A perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Walker, Dawson

Abstract

Since 1987 the USA has waged a campaign to lower the absolute level of international accounting rates to lessen its roughly $4 billion international telecommunications settlement deficit. However, the commercial potency of the accounting rate regime lies in the cost-based division of the accounting rate, not the overall level which has been the focus of the US policy effort. True cost-based accounting rates may not necessarily improve the US position, especially with the developing world. The developing world nevertheless runs the risk of being unfairly caught in the cost-based crossfire. A decade after The Missing Link the international accounting rate regime still provides a bilateral mechanism to deliver infrastructure support to the developing world; such support accords with the aspirations of both the ITU and G7 to achieve universal access to the benefits of the Information Society.

Suggested Citation

  • Walker, Dawson, 1996. "International accounting rates. A perspective," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 20(4), pages 239-242, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:20:y:1996:i:4:p:239-242
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0308596195000216
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Francesco Castelli & José Luis Gómez Barroso & Claudio Leporelli, 2000. "Global Universal Service and International Settlement Reform," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 69(4), pages 679-694.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:20:y:1996:i:4:p:239-242. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30471/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.