ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some comments are made about the implications of these problematiques, and these are accompanied by some suggestions for the adoption of creative strategies in the enhancement of policy in the telecom sector. The general endorsement of regional initiatives in the Caribbean as the appropriate strategy for the telecom sector and the uncritical acceptance of the principle of privatization raise the issue of how emergent policy will address competing state, regional, and multinational corporate interests. Telecommunications policy falls directly into the larger province of "development" and is, in fact, socio-economic policy. It can be explained by analysis of one basic question: telecommunications for whom, by whom? This questions underlies all fundamental policy and regulatory issues of the 1990s. Its relevance becomes clear when one reviews the "forgotten genealogy" of the information revolution and its impact upon Caribbean communication.
