Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania
A relative latecomer to telecommunications reform, Mauritania, a low-income country of 2.5 million inhabitants on the Western edge of the Sahara, embarked on tan ambitious telecommunication reform in 1998. At that time, this largely desert nation had one of the lowest penetrations of telephony in the world. The immediate reform objectives were to ensure rapid improvement of telecommunications service availability through a) opening the sector to competition; and b) privatization of the state-owned telecommunications operator in Mauritania. Launched within an overall program of macroeconomic and structural reforms assisted by the World Bank, the telecommunications reform agenda faced several risks and constraints: 1) a virtual lack of institutional capacity and experience in privatization and regulation of utilities in a competitive framework; 2) the country's lack of name recognition, and poor investor perception of country risk and commercial attractiveness; and 3) with the onset of the East Asian financial crisis and increasing indebtedness of major European telecommunications operators in 2000, a highly challenging environment for attracting new capital into high-risk emerging market telecommunications sectors.
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dig-okr-1098697872024-08-08T17:58:55Z Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania Libralisation des telecomunications en Mauritanie Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY A relative latecomer to telecommunications reform, Mauritania, a low-income country of 2.5 million inhabitants on the Western edge of the Sahara, embarked on tan ambitious telecommunication reform in 1998. At that time, this largely desert nation had one of the lowest penetrations of telephony in the world. The immediate reform objectives were to ensure rapid improvement of telecommunications service availability through a) opening the sector to competition; and b) privatization of the state-owned telecommunications operator in Mauritania. Launched within an overall program of macroeconomic and structural reforms assisted by the World Bank, the telecommunications reform agenda faced several risks and constraints: 1) a virtual lack of institutional capacity and experience in privatization and regulation of utilities in a competitive framework; 2) the country's lack of name recognition, and poor investor perception of country risk and commercial attractiveness; and 3) with the onset of the East Asian financial crisis and increasing indebtedness of major European telecommunications operators in 2000, a highly challenging environment for attracting new capital into high-risk emerging market telecommunications sectors. 2012-08-13T09:32:23Z 2012-08-13T09:32:23Z 2001-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1620920/liberalizing-telecommunications-mauritania https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9787 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 71 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
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BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY |
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BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania |
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A relative latecomer to
telecommunications reform, Mauritania, a low-income country
of 2.5 million inhabitants on the Western edge of the
Sahara, embarked on tan ambitious telecommunication reform
in 1998. At that time, this largely desert nation had one of
the lowest penetrations of telephony in the world. The
immediate reform objectives were to ensure rapid improvement
of telecommunications service availability through a)
opening the sector to competition; and b) privatization of
the state-owned telecommunications operator in Mauritania.
Launched within an overall program of macroeconomic and
structural reforms assisted by the World Bank, the
telecommunications reform agenda faced several risks and
constraints: 1) a virtual lack of institutional capacity and
experience in privatization and regulation of utilities in a
competitive framework; 2) the country's lack of name
recognition, and poor investor perception of country risk
and commercial attractiveness; and 3) with the onset of the
East Asian financial crisis and increasing indebtedness of
major European telecommunications operators in 2000, a
highly challenging environment for attracting new capital
into high-risk emerging market telecommunications sectors. |
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BIDDING DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DOCUMENTS FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRANET LEARNING NETWORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT REFORM PROCESS REFORMS REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TEAMWORK TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATION REFORM TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS TELEPHONE TELEPHONE ACCESS TELEPHONE LINES TELEPHONES TELEPHONY TRANSPARENCY WEB TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIBERALIZATION COMPETITIVENESS PRIVATIZATION PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES COUNTRY RISK INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY UTILITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION TEAM WORK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENTS TIMING OF PROJECT BIDDING PROCESS COUNTRY RISK INDEBTEDNESS INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY |
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Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav |
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Nair, Govindan G. Tintchev, Svetoslav |
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Nair, Govindan G. |
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Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania |
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Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania |
| title_full |
Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania |
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Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania |
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Liberalizing Telecommunications in Mauritania |
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liberalizing telecommunications in mauritania |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2001-12 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1620920/liberalizing-telecommunications-mauritania https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9787 |
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