State regulation and telecommunications reform

• Autor(a) principal: Heber, Florence
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Fischer, Tânia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6310

Since the 1980's the telecommunications sector has been the object of restructuring policies in several countries. The reforms, supported by market liberalization and the privatization of public operators, initially took place in the United Kingdom, being followed, in different ways, by other European, Latin American and Asian countries. The current telecommunication sector reform in Brazil began in 1997, with the promulgation of the Telecommunications Act, and the ulterior privatization of the Telebrás System and Embratel. The change includes the creation of a regulatory agency - Anatel -, articulated with the proposal of redefinition of the State¿s role from direct producer to regulator. This paper analyzes the telecommunications sector reform, proposing to understand it as worldwide phenomenon and to examine the new forms of public action based regulatory concepts and practices.