COMPETITION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PERIPHERAL REGIONS AND SMALL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE

Recent technological, economic and policy shifts have placed the issue s surrounding future communications infrastructure development and com petition at the centre of European debates in the mid-1990s, This arti cle examines how realistic, viable or universal is the vision of compe ting, alternative telecommunications infrastructures and facilities, e specially in the case of the smaller and less developed economies/regi ons, This article critically assesses the challenges posed by, and imp lications of, competition In the telecommunications infrastructures in the less favoured regions and smaller economies of Europe,