ABSTRACT
The British experience of telecommunications regulation in the 1980s and 1990s provides a particularly appropriate and important case study of ‘liberalisation’. Britain was one of the earliest countries in Europe to undertake privatisation, the extension of competition and the establishment of a new regulatory regime. A period of more than a decade has provided evidence of the factors influencing liberalisation and sufficient time for its impacts to be seen. Moreover, Britain has constituted an important pressure and example for regulatory changes at the European and national levels.
