Tronko V. Transnationalization in telecommunication services of Ukraine

This dissertation is aimed to analyze theoretical and practical aspects of business transnationalization in telecommunication services sphere, and mechanisms of national operators' integration into TNCs and, in virtue of these, development of system of measures to ensure optimization of that cooperation to strengthen innovation and foreign competitiveness of national business. Telecommunication services market development state and trends according to world and Ukrainian practice are analyzed. The determinants that influence international companies' expansion to telecommunication services domestic market are identified. The forms of intracorporate and intercompany influence on the telecommunication services market are analyzed. In Ukraine the domestic market performance indicators, profitability and diversification respond to world and regional trends. The competitive structure of telecommunication market analysis is defined as the oligopoly in the mobile line operator market and as the monopoly in the fixed line operator market. In terms of Ukrainian mobile line operator market saturation and taking into account significant entrance barriers for new operators the repartition of market share is being held due to mergers and acquisitions intensification and active marketing technologies implementation. International experience of telecommunication services regulation policy is investigated. Determinants that influence on international companies expansion in the telecommunication services domestic market are defined. The transnationalization level of Ukrainian telecommunication services provision is specified. Taking into account the absence of powerful domestic operators being able to realize full and beneficial alliance with international companies in Ukrainian telecommunication services sphere the author suggests that domestic companies should integrate into transnational corporations through outsourcing. Priority trends in regulation of corporate segment at Ukrainian telecommunication services market in terms of WTO membership are formulated. The prospects of outsourcing scheme enlargement of Ukrainian enterprises and TNC's cooperation in telecommunication market are substantiated. Propositions on tariffs system regulation in telecommunication sphere in terms of oligopoly are developed. Ukraine's membership in WTO significantly influenced on the telecommunication market state regulation. This market became one of the main spheres of the domestic services market. The foreign telecommunication companies such as TNC's have received the liberalized access into the Ukrainian market. So, in fact, the institutional regulation measures provided domestic companies with preferences were lost in Ukraine.