Global Telecommunications Policies

Regulatory change has come to characterize global telecommunications in the 1990s. In this timely book, contributors of recognized distinction and knowledge provide a range of perspectives and discuss a variety of approaches to telecommunications issues, providing broad coverage of telecommunications regulatory policies. In its analysis of public policies for deregulating telecommunications services, the work emphasizes the business strategy implications entailed by each public policy. The volume argues that globalization and interdependence are forcing governments to adjust their policies; that technology often eclipses voluntary government policies; and that all multinational corporations, through their investment strategies and R&D efforts, are important actors in regulatory policy, as are national and international agencies.

MEHEROO JUSSAWALLA is a Senior Research Fellow and Economist in the Program on Communications and Journalism at the East-West Center in Honolulu. She has done pioneering work in the economics of information and telecommunications as related to development in the Asia-Pacific region. She has published twelve books and many articles in accredited journals. Her latest books are Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in a World Without Frontiers (Greenwood, 1992) and United States-Japan Trade in Telecommunications: Conflict and Compromise (Greenwood, 1993). She is on the advisory committee of Transnational Data and Communications Report and on the editorial board of Information Economics and Policy. She is also an elected member of the board of trustees of the International Institute of Communications (London) and the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (Honolulu).