Global Telecommunications Policies: The Challenge of Change

by Meheroo Jussawalla

Overview

Regulatory change has come to characterize global telecommunications in the 1990s. In this timely book, contributors of recognized distinction and knowledge provide a range of perspectives and discuss a variety of approaches to telecommunications issues, providing broad coverage of telecommunications regulatory policies. In its analysis of public policies for deregulating telecommunications services, the work emphasizes the business strategy implications entailed by each public policy. The volume argues that globalization and interdependence are forcing governments to adjust their policies; that technology often eclipses voluntary government policies; and that all multinational corporations, through their investment strategies and R&D efforts, are important actors in regulatory policy, as are national and international agencies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313288654
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/30/1993
Series:	Contributions in Economics and Economic History , #148
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

MEHEROO JUSSAWALLA is a Senior Research Fellow and Economist in the Program on Communications and Jourbanalism at the East-West Center in Honolulu. She has done pioneering work in the economics of information and telecommunications as related to development in the Asia-Pacific region. She has published twelve books and many articles in accredited jourbanals. Her latest books are Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in a World Without Frontiers (Greenwood, 1992) and United States-Japan Trade in Telecommunications: Conflict and Compromise (Greenwood, 1993). She is on the advisory committee of Transnational Data and Communications Report and on the editorial board of Information Economics and Policy. She is also an elected member of the board of trustees of the International Institute of Communications (London) and the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (Honolulu).

Table of Contents

Introduction by Meheroo Jussawalla
Changing Technologies and the Role of the FCC in the United States by Henry Geller
French Telecommunication Policy: Evolution and Trends by Jean Pierre Chamoux
Deutsche Telekom's Strategy: Cooperative Communications Policies by Klaus Grewlich
Recent Developments in UK Telecommunications Policy by Adrian Norman
Impacts of the 1985 Reform of Japan's Telecommunications Industry on NTT by Hajime Oniki
Telecommunication Reform in Canada by William Melody and Peter S. Anderson
Telecommunications Policy for an Information-Intensive Australia by D. McL. Lamberton
Privatization, Deregulation, and Beyond: Trends in Telecommunications in Some Latin American Countries by Raimundo Beca
Telecommunications in Africa: Policy and Management Trends by Raymond Akwule
Telecommunications Development in China: Problems, Policies, and Prospects by Lin Sun
Telecommunications and Regional Interdependence in Southeast Asia by Meheroo Jussawalla
Maximizing Benefits from New Telecommunications Technologies: Policy Challenges for Developing Countries by Heather E. Hudson
Agenda for the 1990s by Klaus Grewlich
The Challenge of Change by Meheroo Jussawalla

Editorial Reviews

Professors, corporate consultants, and regulators discuss the changes in the regulation of the telecommunications industry, which is facing massive upheavals that challenge established institutional and industrial structures beyond the telecommunications industry itself. Topics include the role of the FCC, evolution and trends in telecommunications policy around the world, privatization, deregulation, and maximizing benefits from new technologies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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