...Ravinder Kumar Verma; P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan; Arpan Kumar Kar Purpose Digital platforms (DP) are transforming service delivery and affecting associated actors. The position of DPs is impacted by the regulations. However, emerging economies often lack the regulatory environment to support DPs...

... of decisions that are ill‐suited to the new environment. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Internet Telecommunications Regulations USA The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is confronting a rapidly changing external environment, characterized by a number of developments: The emergence...

...Marcel Machill; Thomas Hart; Bettina Kaltenhäuser Self‐regulation is widely considered to be a necessary complement – sometimes substitute – for traditional media‐supervision legislation and practice, especially so when the regulatory object is the Internet, where national legislation meets global...

...Patrick Xavier; Xu Yan Telecommunications regulation in Hong Kong (China) is interesting as a case study of pro‐competitive regulation in a geographically small city of some 6.8 million people. It is also of particular interest because The Office of the Telecommunications Authority, the sector...

... will focus on regulatory subjects including entry regulation, price regulation, fair competition and relations with foreign firms. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Understanding the telecommunication industry is difficult because only a few statistics have so far been disclosed from North Korea. North Korea...

..., the interest among the leading wireless telecom equipment manufacturers, notably Ericsson and Nokia, was low and the development of rules and standards would evolve within and between industrial alliances. Mobile communications Regulations Europe The telecommunications and computer technology...

... provided across alternative networks, and that there are no obstacles to the Europeanization of the market. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Telecommunications Regulations European Union Mobile communications Second, the liberalization process has taken place without rapidly removing certain...

... considerations need to be taken into account, far‐sightedness, fairness, transparency and the practice of public consultation also need to be fostered. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Mobile communications Telecommunications Regulations Licensing The development of third generation (3G) mobile...

... it affects their capacity to attract investment or skilled workers. Could we go further and organise institutional competition among authorities within the same territory? Electronic communications provide a good case study, with the same competencies being attributed to regulators, competition authorities...

... issues are resolved in practice: clarity of the rules; national priorities; regulator activism; emphasis on negotiation by the parties and the overall pricing model. The overall finding is that the degree of regulatory intervention required to make interconnect regimes work has largely been...

...Rohan Samarajiva Discusses telecommunication regulatory agencies, which have multiplied worldwide. Proclaims the new regulators can win effective independence and position themselves as exemplars of good governance. Sums up that good regulatory design is never fully completed, in the same way...

...Christian M. Dippon Asks whether the FCC is using the wrong cost model to try to balance incumbents of the US Telecommunications Act with new operators, to make things equal for all. Concludes that regulators around the world learn from the US’s experience in trying to avoid the use of cost proxy...

... to face and should be prepared for. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Telecommunications Regulations Spain Camford info vol.2 no.4 august.2000 the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications information and media article: 391 © 2000 Camford Publishing Ltd 1463-6697/00/040391-25...

... issues to be addressed with regard to mobile communications. Camford info vol.2 no.3 june.2000 the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications information and media article: 313 © 2000 Camford Publishing Ltd 1463-6697/00/030313-16 1999...

... an NRA is entrusted with “rule application” rather than with “rule making” tasks. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Telecommunications Regulations Europe Camford info vol.2 no.3 june.2000 the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications information and media article: 251 © 2000...

...Eric Van Heesvelde Identifies the fixed/mobile communications convergence phenomenon, which characterizes the telecommunications market technologically and commercially, and analyses the regulatory consequences of convergence. Pinpoints the task of the regulator as being to be simultaneously...

... psychology, as reflected in individual decisions and corporate actions, and the efficiency of traditional regulation in enabling the vision. Camford info vol.2 no.2 april.2000 the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications information and media article: 187 © 2000 Camford Publishing...

...A. Michael Noll Questions the effectiveness of regulation and the openness of markets in telecommunications, when government has a vested stake momentarily in a telecoms provider. Looks at various countries’ways of handling such as global alliances, and gives recommendations to safeguard sales...

...Kidnapillai Selvarajah Contends the best strategy for facing up to the growing demand for services in mobile communications is to learn from the experience of other countries around the globe. Addresses the key role of regulation, formulating policy framework, overcoming incumbents’ resistance...

... to the internal market. © MCB UP Limited 1999 European Commission Communications Regulations Camford info vol.1 no.6 december.1999 the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications information and media 477 © 1999 Camford Publishing Ltd 1463-6697/99/060477-07 inform...