21世纪电信竞争政策

Competition Policy of Telecommunications in21st Century

通过分析电信部门对竞争性市场结果的可能偏离,提出了一系列旨在矫正反竞争行为负面效果的制度安排,并在结尾部分探讨了政策制定者未来面临的问题和挑战。着重指出:除了技术方面,未来电信竞争政策面临的另一个挑战是在投资领域,各国都需要在国家经济安全与电信政策的投资中立之间作出权衡,这在发展中国家显得尤为重要。从长期看,即使市场化能够发展到颠峰程度也不应使电信竞争政策支持完全投资中立的价值观,只要技术变革未达到有效消除该行业要素流动的经济障碍,公共部门对市场准入的管理就不应消失。

The purpose of this paper is to discuss competition policy in telecommunications in the twenty-first century with a special emphasis in China by examining, firstly, possible deviations of telecom sector from competitive outcome, and followed then, by exploring possible institutional arrangements and its governance to remove or lessen the negative effects of anti-competitive behavior. The paper concludes by providing a forecasting of the trends and problems faced by future policy-makers. It emphasizes that apart from technologies, future telecom competition policy faces another challenge in investment field. Each country needs to balance between national economic security and investment neutrality of telecom policy, which is highly important in developing countries. From a long view, telecom competition policy should not support a value of absolute investment neutrality, even if the market develops into a summit. Public sector cannot cancel the management of market access until technical reform effectively removes the economic obstacle of factor flowing of telecom industry.