我们离规范的竞争有多远?

How Far Away are We from a Well-regulated Competition?

早在几十年前就有西方经济学家提出,对自然垄断的管制目的在于创造一种人为的市场力量。随着5月16日中国电信、中国网通公司的挂牌成立,中国电信市场新的“5+1”竞争格局正式形成。竞争性的“市场力量”有了,那么,真正意义上的规范竞争是否形成?日前,本刊记者先后对四川、湖北等地的电信市场进行了调研采访。在采访中记者发现,频繁爆发的价格战和频频引起争端的网间互联等都说明了一个问题:我们离成熟、规范的竞争性市场还有很大差距。

Western economists have put forward the point of view decades ago, that the purpose of regulation on natural monopoly is to create a man-made market force. The new competitive structure of '5+1' in Chinese telecom market has come into being as the establishment of China Telecom and China Netcom on May 16th. The competitive 'market force' does exist; have the well-regulated competition come true? Our reporters made some interviews and investigations recently on the telecom market in provinces as Sichuan and Hubei, and found out that Frequenl price-fight and interconnect with discord. All of these indicate that: We are still quite far away from a mature and well-regulated competitive market.