Getting a Dial Tone

Telecommunications Liberalisation in Malaysia and the Philippines

Lorraine Carlos Salazar author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:ISEAS

Published:30th Jan '07

Should be back in stock very soon

Getting a Dial Tone cover

A decade after the above quote, far reaching reforms in the telecommunications sector has dramatically changed the situation in both the Philippines and Malaysia. By looking at the institutions and actors that drove these changes, this book examines state capacity, market reform, and rent-seeking in the two countries. In doing so, the study challenges conventional depictions of the Malaysian and Philippine states. In Malaysia, although considered a strong state, patronage and rent-seeking played key roles in policy adoption and implementation.

Ninety-nine percent of Filipinos are waiting for a telephone and the other one percent for a dial tone... - Lee Kuan Yew, November 1992.

ISBN: 9789812303820

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 756g

412 pages