Divestiture, deregulation and market entry have not removed the burden of choice in US telecommunications policy. This report analyses the context in which the USA is struggling to strike a balance between regulation and global competition, and discusses the future prospects for regulation in...

Twenty years ago, the telecommunications industry was an established regulated monopoly. But improvements in technology and reductions in costs have ripped apart the premises of natural monopoly and the economic rationale for public utility regulation. The authors review past US...

Since the 1980s the growing importance of the corporate network has raised sensitive policy issues in telecommunications relating to privatization and national sovereignty. This paper explores these issues in relation to the corporate network and analyses the existing problems and those that...

Western economies, and the US in particular, are experiencing a dramatic diversification and proliferation of information activities which will effect all aspects of leisure and business. Against this background, Manley Irwin considers the nature of market entry, the reasons why markets are...

The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is a body set up by Royal Charter for the promotion of social science research. In August 1985, Council established a major Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) to examine the important and pervasive long-term societal...

This extensive, state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various experiences of liberalization across different sectors, regions and disciplines.

The dominant activity in telecom reform is now shifting from policy development to implementation. This is a more difficult task that depends heavily on competent, independent regulation in both developed and developing countries. A speed up in the remaining steps to complete full institutional...