Local Telecommunication Competition: Developments and Policy Issues

By the beginning of 1996, eight OECD countries had liberalised the provision of public switched telecommunication networks (PSTN) in their markets. In the other 18 OECD countries the incumbent public telecommunication operator (PTO) had the sole ...

Globalisation and Competitiveness: Relevant Indicators (STI Working Papers 1996/5)

The aim of this paper is to provide a critical description of some of the indicators most frequently used in analysing competitiveness.

Access and Pricing for Information Infrastructure Services: Communication Tariffication, Regulation and the Internet

The OECD, together with the European Commission (DGXIII), and COMTEC (Dublin City University), held a workshop on the pricing and regulation of Internet in Dublin on the 20th and 21 June 1996.

Report of the Helskini (Porvoo) Workshop (No. 4): The Economics of the Information Society

As the global information society (GIS) continues to evolve in a complex world, the accompanying economic transformation process remains less than straightforward.

Global Information Infrastructure - Global Information Society (GII-GIS): Statement of Policy Recommendations

This statement is an initial response to the OECD Council, meeting at Ministerial level, in May 1995 to provide a policy report on the Global Information Infrastructure - Global Information Society (GII-GIS) ...

Mobile Cellular Communication: Pricing Strategies and Competition (STI Digital Economy Paper 23)

Competition is driving growth of mobile telecommunication into new markets, particularly personal communication markets.

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Short-Term Indicators: Using Qualitative Indicators to Update Production Indices (STI Working Papers 1996/3)

The paper shows the results of a pilot study for six industrial sectors in seven OECD Member countries (Canada, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States) whereby short-term qualitative indicators are used to "nowcast" a quantitative indicator, the production index.

The role of information in telecommunications regulations (STI Digital Economy Paper 22)

This paper examines the role of information in the regulation of telecommunications and the impact of changes that are likely to occur in the nature of such regulation from the regulation of monopoly, through the development of competition to the emergence of a full telecommunications market.

The Impact of R&D and Technology Diffusion on Productivity Growth: Evidence for 10 OECD Countries in the 1970s and 1980s (STI Working Papers 1996/2)

This paper examines the empirical evidence on the impact of performed R&D and of embodied R&D on productivity performance in 10 major OECD countries (the G7 countries, Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands) over the last two decades.