Regulação de indústrias de rede: entre flexibilidade e estabilidade Regulation of network industries: between flexibility and stability

Abstract

This paper explores the problems of an unstable regulatory regime in network industries and addresses the tension between the necessary flexibility in the long-term regulatory commitment and the need for institutional stability. A draft statute that substantively changes the initial terms under which fixed telecommunications services have been transferred to private companies - currently under discussion in the Brazilian Congress - is presented as an example of that tension. Some alternative proposals to tackle with universal service challenges - the underlying problem behind the mentioned draft statute - are presented in the end.

Keywords

• regulation
• regulatory commitment
• network industries
• telecommunications