Kurzbeschreibung von: Theory and Practice of Telecommunications Regulationin Nigeria through the Development Question

The author applies a socio-legal methodology to
examine the appropriateness of 'less' regulation
principle of free-market in the regulation of Nigeria
telecommunications sector given the country's
development questions. The author further utilizes
the country's sector-specific legislative enactments,
policy, economic challenges, and socio-cultural
peculiarities as underlying and reinforcing factors
for the interrogations and evaluations undertaken in
the study. The study finds that market systems
possessed significantly unique features and
characteristics which are as distinct as the
societies in which such economic markets are
situated. The peculiarities inherent in the societies
form part of the innate elements of 'market forces'
which, if uncontrolled, diminish the prospects of
economic development and projections made under
relevant policies and laws. The author argues for
objective and purposeful regulation of markets and
articulates a set of market-management benchmarks.
The benchmarks outline a regulatory sequence that
facilitates rapid realization of intendments of laws,
policy and societal expectations. The research
questions, analysis, findings and recommendations
would be especially useful to governments
departments, policy advisers, regulators, scholars of
regulation, law and development.