International Telecommunication Service Market Access Regime And Perfection Research On Relevant Regime In China

As the important service trade department of GATS, InternationalTelecommunication Service has close relationship to the economic development of acountry and the living standard of its people; it has great significance to the safety ofthe sovereignty and the information resources as well. In such an era that sciencedevelops rapidly and the inter-state communication takes place frequently,International Telecommunication Service tends to get involved in every aspect in thepolitical, economical and cultural associations among nations, playing anirreplaceable role.The liberalization in international service providing is the mainstream in thedevelopment of world economy nowadays. However, due to the fact thattelecommunication service contains sensitive factors like national security, manycountries do not open telecommunication market, the process of liberalization isslowing down. In1990s, the monopoly in telecommunication market of China wasbroken down, which became the basis for telecommunication liberalization.Competitions have been keeping introduced in, which opened a new chapter intelecommunication market in China. During the10years period after that,telecommunication service of China has gained significant improvements, soften the market access, increased transparency of telecommunication laws and regulationsand the competition pattern has been formed. Meanwhile, the defects andimperfections in the laws and regimes concerning foreign capitals oftelecommunication have been detected in practice. Our telecommunication industrylacks of independent regulatory authority and Telecommunication Law, whichrestrict the healthy development of the telecommunication service market in China.Comparing with those developed countries and top-level technics intelecommunication field, China is still in an early stage. Legal regimes in Chinaseem to be lagged behind and out-of-date, which affect the outcome of foreigncapital attraction and the development of telecommunication service industry.Therefore, the reform and perfection of the present telecommunication legal systembecome an urgent issue in promoting the telecommunication service industry ofChina.In order to reveal the existing problem and offer suggestions of the regime inChina, this article mainly consists of the following four parts:The first part, introduce the basic regime of market access of InternationalTelecommunication Service; define the meaning of International TelecommunicationService and its market access. The purpose of which is to grab the theoreticalknowledge from a general viewpoint.The second part, illustrate the laws and regulations in market access ofInternational Telecommunication Service, which include the general and specificregulations in GATS relating to the telecommunication service issue and thecommitment of China on telecommunication market access made when joining inWTO; The influence of Agreement on Basic Telecommunications and the new roundnegotiation; and the suggestions made by WTO members on the market access ofInternational Telecommunication Service.The third part, from the perspective view of the practice in China on thedevelopment of telecommunication market, explains and illustrates the status quoand defects on the market access issue. Raise the existing problems.The fourth part, focusing on the status quo and defects found in the third part, give the possible solutions and suggestions in reforming and perfecting the marketaccess of China’s telecommunication service.