Name: Telecommunications in Europe By Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)
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Telecommunications in Europe by Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)

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.

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'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)

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

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Title

Telecommunications in Europe by Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)

Author

Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)

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Communication and Society

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New

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Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

1992-10-15

Number of pages

536

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Telecommunications in Europe Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)

Telecommunications in Europe by Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)

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Telecommunications in Europe by Eli Noam (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University Commissioner of Public Service, New York)

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