Deregulation of the US telecommunications market—by far the largest in the world, accounting for 40% of the world market—has led to a rapid increase in imports, so that the United States is now pressing for “reciprocal” changes in other countries’ telecommunications markets. The...

The isolation of national telecommunications markets in the past has meant that pronounced differences remain among the R&D systems operating in the countries of the European Community. The intended opening up of public procurement markets by the end of 1992 could therefore lead to substantial...