論文發表人：周銳行（加州大學聖地牙哥分校 傳播學系博士班）
http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2009/
Insofar as a nation's telecommunications reforms are concerned, do the state and markets necessarily play opposite roles in the reform processes? China and India, as two fast growing economies, have experienced rapid growth in their telecommunications in the last two decades. Behind the two nations' similar growth paths in mobile telephony, China and India adopted different policy approaches to their telecommunications development. To de-monopolize mobile telephony in the early 1990s, China opted for a state-led telecommunications system with managed competition through creating a second state-owned operator to participate in markets. On the other hand, India had aimed at a more liberalized telecommunications market through a licensing policy that would introduce multiple private operators into the market. These two seemingly contradicting mechanisms (China's state-led and India's market-led approaches), nevertheless, have respectively helped the two nations to achieve the same rate of rapid growth in mobile teledensity. This paper explores how state interventions and market forces have concurrently contributed to each of the two nations' development in mobile telephony, though their policies are quite different. The discussion shows that the two nations' reforms were not driven either by the state's active participation in the sector or withdrawal from the industry.
在國家電信改革的過程中，國家與市場是否一定是扮演相對立場的角色？中國和印度這兩個高速發展的經濟體在過去二十年，其電信產業快速成長。這兩個國家的移動通信有著相似的成長軌跡，但它們卻是採取了非常不同的政策手段來進行電信建設發展。在一九九０代初期，為了打破壟斷，中國透過成立第二家國營運營商產生市場競爭態勢來創造一個由國家掌控但具有適度競爭的電信產業。印度所採取的政策則是引入多家私人運營商以建立一個更為開放的電信市場。這兩種看似相反的策略分別成功地讓中國和印度在移動通信上有著相似的快速成長。本論文在探究雖然中國和印採取了非常不同的改革手段，但國家干預和市場力量這兩者是如何同時地對這兩個國家的移動通信發展有所貢獻。本研究發現，中國和印度電信改革的推動既不是僅靠國家力量的積極參與也不是國家力量的一昧撤離電信產業。
