Telecommunications and Empire.
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| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Champaign :
University of Illinois Press,
2007.
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| Σειρά: | The History of Media and Communication Series.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.8543483 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Domestic and International Regulatory Links
- Models of International/National Regulation
- The Internationalization of Domestic Regulation
- The Endgame of the WTO
- Theoretical Framework
- Overview
- 1. Opening Up the British Empire
- Background
- International Telecoms Market Structure
- The U.S. Domestic Market
- Direct Radio Circuits to the Empire
- The FCC and a State-to-State Model
- FCC Unilateral Action: South American Empire
- "Freedom of Information" and Liberalization of the British Empire
- Bilateral-Bermuda Agreements 1945
- The Death of the Bermuda Agreement
- Bringing the ITU under U.S. Control
- Atlantic City Conferences
- Revising the ITU's Telegraph and Telephone Regulations
- The Military-Industrial Linkage: ITT
- The Impact of TAT-1
- Foreign Investment and Dollar Diplomacy
- Conclusion
- 2. Satellites and U.S. Unilateral Regulation
- Satellite Communications: The Beginnings of Private Communications Systems
- Comsat-A Private, Unilateral Operator and Regulator
- The Creation of Intelsat-Interim Arrangements
- Problems with the Interim Arrangements
- The Creation of the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium
- The FCC: Regulator of International Satellite Communications
- Domsat: A Unilateral U.S. Decision
- AT&T Rules: North Atlantic Facilities Planning
- U.S. Domestic Policy: Unilateral Application
- Changes in the Market
- The End of Intelsat's Regulatory Function
- Conclusion
- 3. International Market Structure and the ITU
- State-to-State-Based Networks: The ITU as Regulator
- Computer II and International Communications
- Leading Up to WATTC
- 1984 Preparatory Committee
- Final PCWATTC Text
- The E.U. Green Paper
- The Butler Text
- WATTC-88: The Conference
- Article 1.7 and Special Arrangements
- The Outcome
- Post WATTC
- Conclusion
- 4. Markets and Membership: The Restructuring of the ITU
- Restructuring the ITU: Developing Countries Gain Power
- The Hansen Report: Liberalization, Privatization, and Regulation
- ITU Restructuring: The Rise of Large Users, Private Industry, and the World Bank
- The U.S. Global Information Infrastructure and the ITU
- Restructuring: The Rise of the Private Sector
- Global Mobile Personal Communications Systems
- Bypassing the ITU-"Accounting Rates"
- The Commonwealth Model
- The U.S. Backlash
- ICANN: Bypassing the ITU
- Conclusion
- 5. The World Bank and Privatization
- Background
- U.S. Power over the World Bank
- The Early Years of the World Bank's Privatization Thesis
- The World Bank's Privatization Thesis-1980s
- The Concept of Privatization and the British Model
- Telecommunications Lending-The First Years
- The Impact of the World Bank's Privatization Thesis
- Conclusion
- 6. GATT/WTO and Telecommunications