Competitive Environment Of The Telecommunications Universal Service Mechanism

With the information society approaching and telecommunication service being increasingly important in the economic society, the telecommunication universal service has become the public policy issue stressed by all over the world. On Feb15th, 1997, the 69 countries and regions, which amounted to 90 percent above of the global telecommunication market, signed"Basic Telecommunication Agreement"under WTO. And this marked the coming of global competition age of the telecommunication industry. Therefore, it is a very important topic in reality to study the telecommunication universal service mechanism under the open competition environment. And China also faces the issue of construction of new telecommunication universal service mechanism after the entry to WTO and two telecommunication reorganizations.This thesis, based on the above issue and the open competition background in the telecommunication market, takes telecommunication universal service mechanism as the study object. First, this thesis primarily studies the financing ways of the telecommunication universal service. Second, this thesis deeply studies the compensation ways of telecommunication universal service. Finally, this thesis puts forward some specific suggestions on the construction of telecommunication universal service mechanism in China. And this thesis mainly has four parts in all:In the first part, this thesis introduces the origination and development of telecommunication universal service, and three main traditional telecommunication universal service mechanisms, that is, cross subsidy, compulsory service obligation and access loss compensation. Finally this thesis analyses the problems of traditional telecommunication universal service mechanism under the competition environment.In the second part, this thesis compares the current financing ways of telecommunication universal service. And then analyses the three main compensation ways, i.e. cost compensation, income compensation and price compensation. Based on the above analysis and the practical experience in China and abroad, this thesis chooses...