Issues Of Competition Regulation Of The Telecommunications Industry To Introduce

Telecom regulation reform in China has been carried on for nearly20years since the year of1994. After deregulation, introducing competition into monopoly industries, regulation mechanism reform and industrial restructuring, after the combination of multiple phases and aspects of regulation, a competitive market structure has been basically formed in the telecom industry of China, the expansion of telecommunications services market was rapidly, the content of products and services were enriched, the quality was improved, telecom comprehensive price level dropped, these are all the achievements of telecom regulation reform in China.Facing rapid technological progress in telecommunications industry in our country at present stage and the profound change of the rising demand, plus three net fusions and the special case of fully open market after China’s accession to the WTO, it is necessary for us to study, summarize and review our country’s telecom regulation reform, to make sure that in the next stage our country’s telecom regulation reform meet new challenges and continue to deepen the reform of the telecom regulation.As for the telecom regulation reform in our country, the main purpose is enhancing competition, asymmetric regulation is the main means of enhancing competition. Around the asymmetric regulation, all sorts of measures were uesd, constituting the specific policy system of China’s telecommunications industry regulation reform. The establishment of China unicom in1994and the loosing of the entry control, created the market environment of competition on the premise condition. The reform of regulatory organizations since1998, lagging behind to the proper time, provided the system premise required by asymmetric regulation. With these conditions and environment, the Chinese government carried out asymmetric regulation in the telecommunications industry for two decades. The means of asymmetric regulation mainly include structural and behavioral asymmetric regulation. Structural asymmetric regulation embodied in China’s telecommunications industry restructuring, the three times the final formation of China mobile, China unicom, China telecom three whole business competition of the telecom operators compete against each other. Behavioral asymmetric regulation in telecommunications authority in order to support the development of China unicom, for China mobile in the market access, tariff, connectivity, number carrying, roaming, asymmetry of universal service, etc, to implement more stringent regulatory measures.At different stages of asymmetric competition, due to the difference of its itself content, and supporting measures in different stage of development, led to different results. From1994to1997the main mean is behavioral regulation effect of asymmetric regulation, which lead to few results. After1998, there is a combination of behavioral regulation and structural regulation of asymmetric regulation, which achieved good effects, promoted the competition in the market greatly. This article researches the asymmetric regulation in telecoms industry of our country at different stages, using theoretical analysis, empirical analysis and comparative study on the method of combining evaluation of the telecommunications industry in our country asymmetric regulation effect on competition, discusses the mechanism of asymmetric regulation, asymmetry of telecommunications regulation in our country are analyzed in each stage have different effect, finally gives the corresponding policy recommendations.Here are the main conclusions of this paper:Asymmetric regulation played an important role in Chinese telecom regulation reform, and it worked out in China.Asymmetric regulation must be carried out under the condition of independent regulatory organizations to achieve the effect of enhance competition, and Chinese telecom regulation institutions was built later than needed, which influence the effect of asymmetric regulation in a certain period. In the next phase of the telecom industry in China we still need to promote asymmetric regulation, and improve the legal environment, deepen the reform of marketization.