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Volume	Vol 27, nº 2, Abr-Jun - 2007
Author	Alexandre Ditzel Faraco e Diogo Coutinho
Section	Artigos
Paper	Regulação de indústrias de rede: entre flexibilidade e estabilidade
Summary	Regulation of network industries: between flexibility and stability. 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.