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Description
The telecommunications industry has undergone a Fundamental change in structure, from that of monopoly to one of competition. Advances in technology have led to convergence with other industries with separate regulation, resulting in the need for consolidation. Many of the laws and regulations examined in this second edition of Telecommunications Law are concerned with this process of change and regulating for competition.
Telecommunications Law and Regulation has been fully updated and contains new chapters on Authorisation and Licensing. Intellectual Property and Standards Issues and Content Regulation, including broadcasting, internet and premium-rate services. It is written by many of the leading experts and practitioners in the field, and offers a thorough survey of the law and regulatory structures relating to telecommunications.
This book is essential reading for legal practitioners involved in the communications industry and of interest to management consultants, bankers and accountants who will need to be aware of the legal implications of this fast-changing area. It is also a highly accessible and thought-provoking book for postgraduate study.
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Contents
Part I - The Fundamentals
1. Telecommunications Law and Regulation: An Introduction
2. The Economics of Telecommunications Regulation
Part II - The UK and EU Regulatory Regimes
3. The Telecommunications Regime in the United Kingdom
4. European Union Communications Law
Part III - Key Issues and Transactions
5. Authorization and Licensing
6. Access and Interconnection
7. Telecommunications Contracts: Outsourcing
8. Competition Law in Telecommunications
9. Telecommunications, Intellectual Property, and Standards
Part IV - Communications Content
10. Communications Privacy
11. Content Regulation
Part V - International Regulatory Regimes
12. The International Regulatory Regime
13. Overview of us Telecommunications Law
14. Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries
15. Designing Regulatory Frameworks for Developing Countries
Index
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Author Details
Ian Walden is Reader in Information and Communications Law and Head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Queen Mary University of London. He has been involved in law reform projects for the World Bank, the European Commission. UNCTAD and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development as well as for a number of individual states. In 1995-96, Ian was seconded to the European Commission as a National Expert in electronic commerce law and he is a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission, Ian is a consultant to the global law firm Baker & McKenzie and is a Public Interest Board Member of the Internet Watch Foundation.
John Angel is a solicitor and formerly head of Online Legal Services at Clifford Chance and is now a consultant with Jomati. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the institute of Computer and Communications Law Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Queen Mary University of London.
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