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This chapter summarises the key findings of the book. An informed discussion on policy diffusion in the light of the study’s results is provided, specifically regarding the conditions and mechanisms of diffusion in the telecommunications sector. The book concludes by linking ICT regulatory reforms and their main driving forces in the Euro-Mediterranean area to a global movement of innovation originating from Southern countries such as Peru or Chile, and also Morocco. It supports the rise of a new generation of policy innovations with the potential to leapfrog the models provided by European countries.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Several experts underlined alliances based on the shared French language, which acts as a vector for experience-sharing, for example, with Senegal, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Benin, Congo, Burkina Faso (Experts MO2, MO3).

  2. 2.

    LTE is the evolution from both the GSM and UMTS , and also from CDMA2000 networks. This standard was developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) hosted in the ETSI headquarters (3GPP 2015). 3GPP is a consortium based on seven organisational partners, from Asia, Europe and North America producing technical specifications. 3GPP also includes more than 370 individual member companies, market representation partners and observers (3GPP 2009).

  3. 3.

    The decision was part of the revision of the ITU-R Radio Regulations Article 5. A footnote (5.312A) was included in the reviewed 2012 Radiocommunications Regulation mentioning that in the ITU Region 1, the use of the band 694–790 MHz by the mobile, except aeronautical mobile, service is subject to the provisions of Resolution 232 of WRC-12 (ITU 2012a).

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Wavre, V. (2018). Conclusion and Further Research. In: Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70745-7_10

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