中国电信业政府规制改革研究

本文认为,电信业是具有典型规模经济、范围经济和固定成本较大沉淀性的自然垄断产业,这种固有的自然垄断特征为政府实行严格的价格管制和进入管制提供了理论依据;但是,从世界范围看,电信业发生的技术革命和技术进步改变了电信业的成本结构和需求结构,从而使电信业从强自然垄断向弱自然垄断过渡,并最终出现竞争性的市场结构,自然垄断的边界发生改变,放松政府规制成为必然趋势。文章提出,目前我国经济发展与发达国家相比处于较低水平,电信市场的需求水平也相对较低,政府规制改革不仅要引入竞争政策,放松市场准入,而且要制定科学合理的用户资费政策、公平透明的互联互通政策和合理的普遍服务政策,以形成有效竞争的电信市场,推动电信产业的快速健康发展。

The Regulation Reform in the Telecom Industry in China

The author thinks that the telecom industry is a natural monopoly industry,and the characteristics of the natural monopoly provide theoretical bases for the government to exert a strict price control and entry regulation.Then he analyses that in the telecom industry,technological revolution and technological progress have changed the structure of cost and demand,therefore,the competitive market in the telecom industry start to appear,and de-regulation is the inexorable trend.In the end he gives his idea on the regulation reform in the telecom industry in China,which is to formulate a reasonable policy of charges,a fair policy of interconnection,and a reasonable policy of service.