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liberalization and regulation of the telecommunications sector in transition countries the case of russia
p telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development . for many years there were state owned monopolies in the telecommunications sector . in transition economies they were characterized by especially poor performance and high access deficits as telecommunications were considered to be a non profit oriented production process intended to support the socio economic superstructures . as a result the starting point for the reform processes in transition countries was quite poor performed public monopolies functioned under completely different circumstances as the peers in the market economies . p the main question of this book is what the strategies for the successful future development of the telecommunications sector in transition countries are . the special focus is on russia the largest of the transition countries .