Beyond state vanguardism and market fundamentalism: a case for telecommunications commons in Ethiopia

IF 1.5 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Téwodros W. Workneh
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ABSTRACT Despite external and domestic pressures seeking liberalization and privatization, Ethiopia, until recently, maintained a highly centralized, vertically integrated, single service provider model of state monopoly of telecommunications. However, in 2019, the Ethiopian House of Representatives passed the Communications Service Proclamation, a historic bill that deregulated the Ethiopian telecommunications sector, paving the way for domestic and foreign companies to invest in one of the last remaining state-controlled telecommunications markets in the world. By probing the limitations of Ethiopia’s monopolistic arrangement in telecommunications akin to state vanguardism as well as critically examining the potential pitfalls of the impending liberalization of the sector and privatization of the sole telecommunication operator Ethio-Telecom, this article makes the case for instituting a commons-based approach that is pro-poor, pro-development, and contextually streamlined. It concludes by proposing three avenues of telecommunication commons, namely: infrastructure commons; last mile commons; and digital commons.
超越国家先锋主义和市场原教旨主义:埃塞俄比亚电信公地案例
尽管面临着寻求自由化和私有化的国内外压力,埃塞俄比亚直到最近仍保持着高度集中、垂直整合、单一服务提供商的国家垄断电信模式。然而,在2019年,埃塞俄比亚众议院通过了《通信服务公告》,这是一项历史性的法案,解除了对埃塞俄比亚电信行业的管制,为国内外公司投资世界上仅存的几个国家控制的电信市场之一铺平了道路。本文探讨埃塞俄比亚在电信领域类似国家先锋主义的垄断安排的局限性,并批判性地审视即将到来的行业自由化和唯一电信运营商埃塞俄比亚电信私有化的潜在陷阱,提出建立一种以公共为基础的方法,这种方法有利于穷人,有利于发展,并根据具体情况进行精简。最后,提出了电信公共的三种途径,即:基础设施公共;最后一英里公地;以及数字公共资源。
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