TY  - JOUR
T1  - Political Economy of Deregulation: An Impact Analysis of
Nigerian Telecommunications (2000-2014)
AU - Moniruzzaman, M. AU - Mikail, Shafiu Yahya 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SP  - 145
EP  - 154
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2018.145.154
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2018.145.154
KW  - Deregulation
KW  -telecommunications
KW  -efficiency
KW  -growth
KW  -Nigeria
KW  -efficiency
AB  - Telecommunications remain one of the strategic economic sectors that assume prominence in the
current discourses on the growth and integration of national economies and transnational production. Effective
telecommunication system enables countries to achieve impressive socioeconomic gains. However, the Nigerian
telecommunications under state monopoly was characterised by gross inefficiency, financial mismanagement
and non-profitable. Consequently, the government has put a conscious strategy towards regulatory reforms
in the sector. The reform emphasised on market opening by allowing entry for private and transnational
operators into the country’s telecommunication market which eventually led to the transformation of the
industry. Examining four factors, namely-teledensity, broadband penetration, revenue contribution to GDP and
employment generation, this study finds that post-deregulation Nigerian telecommunication sector has shown
evidence of efficiency and growth.
ER  -