The larger West European countries, in particular France, the UK and FR Germany, have launched plans for setting up wider cable TV networks. It appears, however, that they will not achieve the high penetration levels reached in some of the smaller countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and...

The author considers the potential benefits and problems of deregulation in the telecommunications sector. He discusses competition (a) in terminal equipment supply and (b) in network provision. Assessing both areas in the light of US experience, he draws up recommendations for liberalized...

This paper analyses the major effects of liberalization in the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland) and the likely evolution of telecommunications policy in the light of their involvement in the European Economic Area. The structure of the actors, their regulation and envisaged...

Events since 1989 have profoundly altered the political and economic shape of Eastern Europe. The European Community, in particular, faces new challenges and oppurtunities as it is called upon to help in the restructuring of the old command economies, and it also has difficult decisions to make...