On The Reform Of Telecom Service Industry Regulation

This paper mainly gives some reasonable advice to Chinese government on how to improve the regulatory system of the telecommunications industry in China.This paper can be divided into five sections. The first section explores the concept of telecommunications regulation, the economic theory behind it, the common target of telecommunications regulation, and the main content it covers. The second section summarizes the developing trend of international telecommunications regulation and the general rules for telecommunications regulation stipulated by WTO. Since the developed countries are always the leader of telecommunications reform in the world, in the third section, this paper analyses the telecommunications reform of the United States, UK and Japan respectively for reference, sums up their experience and also predicts the future trend of telecommunications regulation reform of the world. Next, in the fourth section, the writer makes a review of Chinese telecommunications reform and finds out the encumbrances in the development of the telecommunications industry. On this basis, the last section discusses the central problems in the reform of Chinese telecommunications regulation, that is, the market entry regulation, pricing regulation, universal service and interconnection regulation. At the end of this paper, combining the experience of other countries, the writer proposes some feasible strategies to the Chinese government.