The Telecoms Trade War – Mark Naftel

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Mark Naftel – The Telecoms Trade War

If one have been to consider the politicians and pundits withinside the alternate press, the arena is in midst of a “telecoms revolution,” ensuing from (the) deregulation and new aggressive possibilities represented with the aid of using the 1997 World Trade Organisation Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services. This can be true. Unfortunately, however, the movements of many regulators and enterprise members extra appropriately display now no longer a telecoms “revolution” however alternatively a developing telecoms alternate battle this is dangerously near spiraling out of hand. In this book, Naftel and Spiwak overview U.S. and European opposition and regulatory tasks post-WTO and offer each a beneficial roadmap to today’s U.S., EU, and WTO telecoms law and an exam of diverse case research to demonstrate their points. In so doing, the authors find out sadly the unhappy fact that, regardless of the political rhetoric, regulators on each facets of the Atlantic have eschewed progressive and certainly efficient answers to create a marketplace shape conducive to long-time period aggressive rivalry. Instead, the authors display that modern guidelines display a developing cynicism in the direction of the maximization of customer welfare on the way to be difficult – if now no longer outright impossible – to remove.

Table Of Contents

PART I: ANALYTICAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK

1: Telecoms Policy for the New Millennium

2: Why Restructure?

3: Analytical Framework

4: Evaluating Competition in a Post-WTO World

5: The WTO and the Reference Paper: An Ostensible Blueprint for Entry

PART II: US EFFORTS TO PROMOTE TELECOMS COMPETITION

6: From International Competitive Carrier Paradigm to Effective Competitive Opportunities: The FCC’s

International Policies Pre-WTO

7: US Policies Post-WTO Part I-Benchmarks and Entry Fees

8: US Policies Post-WTO Part 2-The Naked Politicisation of the American Legal System

9: “Do As I Say, Not As I Do”-US Efforts at Promoting Local Telecoms Competition