
Telecommunications in Europe
Eli Noam(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 15. October 1992
Book
Hardback
536 pages
978-0-19-507052-1 (ISBN)
Description
Noam's book is the first major attempt to address the complicated economic and public 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 in a detailed country-by-country analysis.
Reviews / Votes
'Eli Noam has made an interesting and useful contribution to the European Community's telecommunications review process.'Richard A. Cawley, Telecommunications Policy, April 1993 `encyclopaedic and highly accessible study'
Times Higher Education Supplement `encyclopaedic and highly accessible study'
Financial Times Business Books, November 1993 'a remarkable survey of telecommunications policy and regulation in Europe ... This book will be essential reading ... this book is more than the sum of its parts and will be of enormous value to those involved in study, practice or policy-making for European telecommunications.'
Colin Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science, European Competition Law Review, 15:1 (1994)
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1012 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-507052-1 (9780195070521)
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Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information StudiesDirector, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University; Commissioner of Public Service, New York
Content
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
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