Current competition rules mainly address the dismantling of public services and the liberalization of markets, not the oligopolization of markets or the conduct of the dominant market parties. The WTO...

Current competition rules mainly address the dismantling of public services and the liberalization of markets, not the oligopolization of markets or the conduct of the dominant market parties. The WTO Basic Telecommunications Agreement of February 15, 1997, governs market access but has little to say about the conduct of parties in the market.