Table of Contents

I. Tradition and Change1. Public Telecommunications: A Concept in Transition2. The Establishment of the PTT System3. Network Tipping: The Rise and Fall of the Public Network Monopoly4. Forces of Centrifugalism5. Defense of the Telecommunications Monopoly6. Policy DirectionsII. The Telecommunications Systems of European Countries7. Germany8. The United Kingdom9. FranceTelecommunications in the Benelux and Alpine Countries10. The Netherlands11. Belgium12. Luxembourg13. Switzerland14. AustriaTelecommunications in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic15. Sweden16. Finland17. Norway18. Denmark19. Iceland20. IrelandTelecommunications in the Mediterranean Countries and Eastern Europe21. Italy22. Spain23. Portugal24. Israel25. Turkey26. Greece27. Telecommunications in Eastern EuropeIII. Battlefronts in Telecommunications Policy28. The International Organizations of Telecommunications29. Brussels Takes on the Traditional System30. Telecommunications Policy as Industrial Policy31. Transatlantic Trade Friction32. International Telecommunications Services33. The Economics if ISDN Integration34. The Political Economy of ISDN35. Value-Added Networks and Services36. Videotex37. Transborder Data FlowsIV. The Future of Telecommunications38. Networks in the Future39. Toward a Modular Network40. Telecommunications Liberalization: An Expansionary Process? 41. Regulatory Tasks for the Future: Interconnectivity in the Pluralist Network42. The Pluralist NetworkNotesReferencesIndex