Format:
1 online resource (536 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780195070521
,
9780195361360
Series Statement:
Communication and Society Series
Content:
Telecommunications represents one of the largest high technology equipment and service industries in the world. Today there is growing support within the telecommunications industry for competition domestically and in world trade which is directly at odds with its distinctive political tradition of monopoly provision and minimally competitive international trade practices. This raises major questions, both for emerging public policy and for theorists concerned with the making of public policy. This particularly true for Europe, the focus of this study, where the reform of the telecommunications sector has proven one of the most vexing issues confronting the unification of the European Common Market. Noam's book is the first major attempt to address the complicated economic and policy issues of telecommunications in Europe. He provides a thorough discussion of the evolution of central telephone networks, equipment supply, new value-added networks, and new telecommunications-related services within the framework of a detailed country by country analysis. This highly accessible and comprehensive study will be of interest to students and professionals in the areas of communications, economics, and political science
Note:
Intro -- 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 of 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Noam, Eli Telecommunications in Europe Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c1992 ISBN 9780195070521
Language:
English
Keywords:
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