WTO and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Geradin, Damien

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection consolidates research on the current and future perspectives of international trade law applicable to telecommunications services and audiovisual services in a context of convergence. It is divided into three main parts. The first part analyses the current regulatory framework applicable to telecommunications services in the context of the WTO, including the controversial issues of accounting rates and international competition rules. The second part discusses and analyses the current regulatory framework applicable to audiovisual services. The third part analyses convergence from different angles, including an explanation of convergence in technical terms, as well as reviewing the legal and economic consequences of convergence for trade in telecommunications and audiovisual services. This research lead the editors to summarize the findings made in the chapters and to draw a tentative set of issues to be discussed in the context of the Doha Round of negotiations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511669033
• Artikelnr.: 38209735

Autorenporträt

Professor of Law at the University of Liège and the College of Europe, Bruges.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction:
Damien Géradin and David Luff; Part II. International Regulation of
Telecommunications Services: 2. Telecommunications and audio-visual
services in the context of the WTO: today and tomorrow Kelly Cameron; 3.
Current international trade rules relevant to telecommunications services
David Luff; 4. Accounting rates, cross-border services, and the next WTO
round on basic telecommunications services Peter Cowhey; 5. Reforming
international accounting rates: a developing country perspective Boutheina
Guermazi; 6. A review of the mechanisms provided by the WTO to prevent
anticompetitive practices in telecommunications Damien Geradin and Michel
Kerf; Part III. International Regulation of Audiovisual Services: 7.
Audiovisual policy: the stumbling block of trade liberalisation
Christoph-Beat Graber; 8. Content regulation in the audiovisual sector and
the WTO Ivan Bernier; 9. International regulation of audiovisual services:
networks, allocation of scarce resources and terminal equipment David Luff;
10. Lack of clear regulatory framework on safeguards, government
procurement and subsidies Jean-François Bellis; Part IV. Towards
Convergence?: 11. Convergence: a reality check Milton L. Mueller; 13.
Whither convergence: legal, regulatory and trade opportunism in
telecommunications Robert Frieden; 14. Audiovisual and telecommunications
services - a review of definitions under WTO law Paul Nihoul; 15. Dealing
with convergence at the international level Pierre Larouche; 16. Overcoming
the three digital divides Eli Noam.