Telecommunications in Europe

I. Tradition and Change
1: Public Telecommunications: A Concept in Transition
2: The Establishment of the PTT System
3: Network Tipping: The Rise and Fall of the Public Network Monopoly
4: Forces of Centrifugalism
5: Defense of the Telecommunications Monopoly
6: Policy Directions
II. The Telecommunications Systems of European Countries
7: Germany
8: The United Kingdom
9: France
Telecommunications in the Benelux and Alpine Countries
10: The Netherlands
11: Belgium
12: Luxembourg
13: Switzerland
14: Austria
Telecommunications in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic
15: Sweden
16: Finland
17: Norway
18: Denmark
19: Iceland
20: Ireland
Telecommunications in the Mediterranean Countries and Eastern Europe
21: Italy
22: Spain
23: Portugal
24: Israel
25: Turkey
26: Greece
27: Telecommunications in Eastern Europe
III. Battlefronts in Telecommunications Policy
28: The International Organizations of Telecommunications
29: Brussels Takes on the Traditional System
30: Telecommunications Policy as Industrial Policy
31: Transatlantic Trade Friction
32: International Telecommunications Services
33: The Economics if ISDN Integration
34: The Political Economy of ISDN
35: Value-Added Networks and Services
36: Videotex
37: Transborder Data Flows
IV. The Future of Telecommunications
38: Networks in the Future
39: Toward a Modular Network
40: Telecommunications Liberalization: An Expansionary Process?
41: Regulatory Tasks for the Future: Interconnectivity in the Pluralist Network
42: The Pluralist Network
Notes
References
Index