Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
ISBN:
9780252047121
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0252047125
Serie:
The History of Media and Communication Series
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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GATT and the International Trade Organization
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-281) and index
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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Domestic and International Regulatory Links -- Models of International/National Regulation -- The Internationalization of Domestic Regulation -- The Endgame of the WTO -- Theoretical Framework -- Overview -- 1. Opening Up the British Empire -- Background -- International Telecoms Market Structure -- The U.S. Domestic Market -- Direct Radio Circuits to the Empire -- The FCC and a State-to-State Model -- FCC Unilateral Action: South American Empire
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"Freedom of Information" and Liberalization of the British Empire -- Bilateral-Bermuda Agreements 1945 -- The Death of the Bermuda Agreement -- Bringing the ITU under U.S. Control -- Atlantic City Conferences -- Revising the ITU's Telegraph and Telephone Regulations -- The Military-Industrial Linkage: ITT -- The Impact of TAT-1 -- Foreign Investment and Dollar Diplomacy -- Conclusion -- 2. Satellites and U.S. Unilateral Regulation -- Satellite Communications: The Beginnings of Private Communications Systems -- Comsat-A Private, Unilateral Operator and Regulator
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The Creation of Intelsat-Interim Arrangements -- Problems with the Interim Arrangements -- The Creation of the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium -- The FCC: Regulator of International Satellite Communications -- Domsat: A Unilateral U.S. Decision -- AT&T Rules: North Atlantic Facilities Planning -- U.S. Domestic Policy: Unilateral Application -- Changes in the Market -- The End of Intelsat's Regulatory Function -- Conclusion -- 3. International Market Structure and the ITU -- State-to-State-Based Networks: The ITU as Regulator -- Computer II and International Communications
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Leading Up to WATTC -- 1984 Preparatory Committee -- Final PCWATTC Text -- The E.U. Green Paper -- The Butler Text -- WATTC-88: The Conference -- Article 1.7 and Special Arrangements -- The Outcome -- Post WATTC -- Conclusion -- 4. Markets and Membership: The Restructuring of the ITU -- Restructuring the ITU: Developing Countries Gain Power -- The Hansen Report: Liberalization, Privatization, and Regulation -- ITU Restructuring: The Rise of Large Users, Private Industry, and the World Bank -- The U.S. Global Information Infrastructure and the ITU -- Restructuring: The Rise of the Private Sector
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Global Mobile Personal Communications Systems -- Bypassing the ITU-"Accounting Rates" -- The Commonwealth Model -- The U.S. Backlash -- ICANN: Bypassing the ITU -- Conclusion -- 5. The World Bank and Privatization -- Background -- U.S. Power over the World Bank -- The Early Years of the World Bank's Privatization Thesis -- The World Bank's Privatization Thesis-1980s -- The Concept of Privatization and the British Model -- Telecommunications Lending-The First Years -- The Impact of the World Bank's Privatization Thesis -- Conclusion -- 6. GATT/WTO and Telecommunications
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0252032586
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hills, Jill Telecommunications and Empire Champaign : University of Illinois Press,c2007 ISBN 9780252032585
Sprache:
Englisch
