[kictanet] [Fwd: [Fibre-for-africa] South Africa - Another instance where privatization trumped liberalization]

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Subject: 	[Fibre-for-africa] South Africa - Another instance where 
privatization trumped liberalization
Date: 	Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:24:48 -0400
From: 	Steve Song <ssong at idrc.ca>
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Hi all,

I see that a journal article by Willie Currie and Robert Horwitz in 
Telecommunications Policy entitled "Another instance where privatization 
trumped liberalization: The politics of telecommunications reform in 
South Africa-A ten-year retrospective" has been written up in Business 
Report (http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3998638) and then 
Slashdotted at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1642210.

Looks like a damning summary of how *not* to stimulate investment and 
competition in the telecom sector.  We all knew South Africa was an 
awful example but it is chilling to have 10 years of greed, 
incompetence, and mismanagement laid out so starkly.

-Steve

P.S.  While we are on the topic of *access*, I see that the actual 
journal article is not available on the web.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1282573.1282768

Obviously not Open Access but perhaps the authors were allowed to 
self-archive?  Willie?


-- 
Steve Song <ssong at idrc.ca>
Manager ICT4D Africa Programs
http://www.connectivityafrica.org
http://www.idrc.ca/acacia
International Development Research Centre
Tel. +1 613 236 6163 x2268  Mobile: +1 613 302 8233
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