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The telecoms trade war : the United States, the European Union, and the World Trade Organisation /

If one were to believe the politicians and pundits in the trade press, the world is in midst of a "telecoms revolution," resulting from (the) deregulation and new competitive opportunities represented by the 1997 World Trade Organisation Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services. This...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naftel, Mark
Otros Autores: Spiwak, Lawrence J., Rapp, Lucien
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:If one were to believe the politicians and pundits in the trade press, the world is in midst of a "telecoms revolution," resulting from (the) deregulation and new competitive opportunities represented by the 1997 World Trade Organisation Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services. This may be true. Unfortunately, however, the actions of many regulators and industry participants more accurately reveal not a telecoms "revolution" but instead a growing telecoms trade war that is dangerously close to spiralling out of hand. In this book, Naftel and Spiwak review U.S. and European competition and regulatory initiatives post-WTO and provide both a useful roadmap to today's U.S., EU and WTO telecoms regulation and an examination of various case studies to illustrate their points. In so doing, the authors discover unfortunately the sad reality that, despite the political rhetoric, regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have eschewed innovative and indeed productive solutions to create a market structure conducive to long-term competitive rivalry. Instead, the authors demonstrate that current policies reveal a growing cynicism towards the maximisation of consumer welfare that will be difficult - if not outright impossible- to remove
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxxii, 493 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781847312266
1847312268
1280801123
9781280801129
9781472559012
1472559010