竞争环境下的普遍服务:以电信为例

普遍服务的概念已经有近一个世纪的历史。目前,大多数国家都把普遍服务作为对电信产业管制政策的重要组成部分。随着放松管制和竞争政策的引入,电信普遍服务遇到了一些新的问题,各主要国家大多采用普遍服务基金的方式加以解决。本文介绍了美国和欧盟在这方面的做法,并对我国的普遍服务改革提出了一些建议。

The concept of universal service has been introduced for ahnost a century. Currently, most countries regard universal service as an important component of the telecommunication regulation. Along with the deregulation and the introduction of competition in the industrv of telecommunication, the universal service policy confronts with some new questions. Nowadays, most countries support the program through universal service funds. In this paper, the author summarizes the main experiences of other countries＇ practices, and based on this he gives some advice for our telecommunication universal service.