Telecommunications in Europe / Edition 1

by Eli Noam

Overview

Noam's book is the first major attempt to address the complicated economic and policy issues of telecommunications in Europe. This highly accessible study will be of interest to students and professionals in the areas of communications, economics, and political science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195070521
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	08/28/1992
Series:	Communication and Society Series
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.76(d)
Lexile:	1320L (what's this?)

About the Author

Columbia University; State of New York

Table of Contents

I. Tradition and Change
1. Public Telecommunications: A Concept in Transition
2. The Establishment of the PTT System
3. Network Tipping: The Rise and Fall of the Public Network Monopoly
4. Forces of Centrifugalism
5. Defense of the Telecommunications Monopoly
6. Policy Directions
II. The Telecommunications Systems of European Countries
7. Germany
8. The United Kingdom
9. France
Telecommunications in the Benelux and Alpine Countries
10. The Netherlands
11. Belgium
12. Luxembourg
13. Switzerland
14. Austria
Telecommunications in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic
15. Sweden
16. Finland
17. Norway
18. Denmark
19. Iceland
20. Ireland
Telecommunications in the Mediterranean Countries and Eastern Europe
21. Italy
22. Spain
23. Portugal
24. Israel
25. Turkey
26. Greece
27. Telecommunications in Eastern Europe
III. Battlefronts in Telecommunications Policy
28. The International Organizations of Telecommunications
29. Brussels Takes on the Traditional System
30. Telecommunications Policy as Industrial Policy
31. Transatlantic Trade Friction
32. International Telecommunications Services
33. The Economics if ISDN Integration
34. The Political Economy of ISDN
35. Value-Added Networks and Services
36. Videotex
37. Transborder Data Flows
IV. The Future of Telecommunications
38. Networks in the Future
39. Toward a Modular Network
40. Telecommunications Liberalization: An Expansionary Process?
41. Regulatory Tasks for the Future: Interconnectivity in the Pluralist Network
42. The Pluralist Network
Notes
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Telecommunications in Europe is a treasure of material and references written in clear language, and is of great value for anyone interested in telecommunications."—Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal

"Exceedingly valuable as an information resource on European developments in telecommunications. It is written by an author with an idiosyncratic vision that provides many new insights to the reader."—Journal of Economic Literature

"A remarkable survey of telecommunications policy and regulation in Europe. This book will be essential reading."European Competition Law Review

"Noam provides a first rate presentation of the past and present regulations in the different countries. Combined with the extensive citations included in the appendices, this discussion is of great value to both lawyers and legal scholars....Telecommunications in Europe is a treasure of material and references written in clear language, and is of great value for anyone interested in telecommunications."—Comm/Ent

"Eli Noam has made an interesting and useful contribution to the European Community's telecommunications review process."—Telcommunications Policy

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