Transnational reach of economic regulations the extraterritorial reach of U.S. Regulation on telecommunications

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the regulation of the telecommunications sector has been challenged as the industry moves globally from a historic monopoly-controlled or state-owned model to a competitive environment. This shift has generated differences between countries that have already reached a more competitive market and the others that remain noncompetitive, producing distortions that affect the whole system of rendering telecommunication services, given the structure of the global telecom industry.