Telecommunications in Europe (Communication and Society) 0195070526, 9780195070521

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Table of contents :
Contents......Page 12
I: TRADITION AND CHANGE......Page 14
1. Public Telecommunications: A Concept in Transition......Page 16
2. The Establishment of the PTT System......Page 20
3. Network Tipping: The Rise and Fall of the Public Network Monopoly......Page 39
4. Forces of Centrifugalism......Page 56
5. Defense of the Telecommunications Monopoly......Page 68
6. Policy Directions......Page 74
II: THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES......Page 80
7. Germany......Page 82
8. The United Kingdom......Page 116
9. France......Page 146
Telecommunications in the Benelux and Alpine Countries......Page 180
10. The Netherlands......Page 182
11. Belgium......Page 191
12. Luxembourg......Page 197
13. Switzerland......Page 199
14. Austria......Page 208
Telecommunications in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic......Page 214
15. Sweden......Page 216
16. Finland......Page 225
17. Norway......Page 233
18. Denmark......Page 237
19. Iceland......Page 243
20. Ireland......Page 245
Telecommunications in the Mediterranean Countries and Eastern Europe......Page 250
21. Italy......Page 252
22. Spain......Page 264
23. Portugal......Page 271
24. Israel......Page 275
25. Turkey......Page 280
26. Greece......Page 283
27. Telecommunications in Eastern Europe......Page 287
III: BATTLEFRONTS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY......Page 304
28. The International Organizations of Telecommunications......Page 306
29. Brussels Takes On the Traditional System......Page 318
30. Telecommunications Policy as Industrial Policy......Page 325
31. Transatlantic Trade Friction......Page 335
32. International Telecommunications Services......Page 344
33. The Economics of ISDN Integration......Page 363
34. The Political Economy of ISDN......Page 373
35. Value-Added Networks and Services......Page 382
36. Videotex......Page 395
37. Transborder Data Flows......Page 405
IV: THE FUTURE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS......Page 418
38. Networks in the Future......Page 420
39. Toward a Modular Network......Page 425
40. Telecommunications Liberalization: An Expansionary Process?......Page 430
41. Regulatory Tasks for the Future: Interconnectivity in the Pluralist Network......Page 438
42. The Pluralist Network......Page 445
Notes......Page 454
References......Page 470
A......Page 510
B......Page 511
C......Page 512
D......Page 515
E......Page 516
F......Page 518
G......Page 519
I......Page 520
K......Page 522
M......Page 523
N......Page 524
O......Page 525
P......Page 526
R......Page 527
S......Page 528
T......Page 531
V......Page 534
Y......Page 535
Z......Page 536

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