Titlebook: Restructuring Telecommunications; A Study of Europe in Peter Curwen Book 1997 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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Europe and the Information Society, minor players in telecommunications terms. Acting usually at the behest of member states, policy measures are originated by the Commission, the EU’s civil service, which also enforces EU law. The process by which the Commission has become increasingly involved in the development of an EU-wide telec

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Globalization,ttle use of their telephones and primarily use them during off-peak hours when rates are low. Businesses, on the other hand, are the main users of long-distance and international services and use is largely confined to peak hours. Large multinational businesses accordingly possess considerable marke

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International Traffic,0 billion a year. Only since the late 1960s has it been possible, for example, to conduct large numbers of simultaneous conversations via undersea cables. Since then progress has been swift, with the latest transatlantic fibre-optic cable having the capacity to provide 30 times the capacity for the

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Regulation,‘this investment will not be forthcoming unless a clear and stable regulatory framework is promptly established, identifying the general principles and giving a clear timetable’. The Commission would have preferred to let the free market resolve matters of competition, but could not wait.

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The UK: A Case Study, restriction on companies other than BT and Mercury owning and operating their own circuits for international calls, took place in 1996), and lessons can accordingly be learned from experience there. It is important to note from the outset, however, that whereas AT&T has suffered divestiture and sub