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Toward the Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center and the
NationalInformation Infrastructure, the Republic of Chinais at
the threshold of a newera in the development of its
telecommunications industry. This study proposesthe strategy on
telecommunications industry in the near future as an
initiativeinto the 21st century. Behind the process of
literature review, depth interviews, experiencesurvey from
developing countries, "liberalization", "technology change","
infrastructure safeguard" and "globalization" are proposed as
the four maindirections of the telecommunications industry in
Taiwan. Moreover, the studysuggests: Liberalization:
deregulate to compete and privatize DGT phase by phase,propose a
timetable for the deregulation and privatization, and have
anindependently national telecommunications administration
institution withlegialative power. Technology Change:
encourage developing advanced technologies on trial,and
recommend to eliminate the boundary of the first and the second
categoryof the telecommunications industry. Infrastructure
Safeguard: safeguard the competition under annual review,
regulate the interconnection principles including the principle
of tariffs,and assure the universal service with a special fund
to compensate the costs. Globalization: encourage stratefy
alliances and international investmentdriving by the market
forces, and allow further foreign investments on Taiwan''slocal
telecommunications industry with the restriction of decreasing
thepercentage of investment within a period of time, instead of
limiting themat the inception.
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