We must choose either liberalization of telecommunications or avenues for new centralized regulatory oversight and protracted legal battles.

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The move reflects the Commission's continuing frustration with the EU's telecommunications market, where liberalization may exist on paper, but where competitors are still having trouble breaking into new markets because the incumbents remain not only the dominant service provider, but also control the infrastructure and networks which competitors must use.

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He hasn't rolled back economic reforms of the Fidel Ramos administration that preceded him, such as deregulation and liberalization of the banking, shipping, telecommunications and power sectors.

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