The Wto and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services (Hardcover)

List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: Damien Geradin and David Luff; Part II. International Regulation of Telecommunications Services: 2. Telecommunications and audio-visual services in the context of the WTO: today and tomorrow Kelly Cameron; 3. Current international trade rules relevant to telecommunications services David Luff; 4. Accounting rates, cross-border services, and the next WTO round on basic telecommunications services Peter Cowhey; 5. Reforming international accounting rates: a developing country perspective Boutheina Guermazi; 6. A review of the mechanisms provided by the WTO to prevent anticompetitive practices in telecommunications Damien Geradin and Michel Kerf; Part III. International Regulation of Audiovisual Services: 7. Audiovisual policy: the stumbling block of trade liberalisation Christoph-Beat Graber; 8. Content regulation in the audiovisual sector and the WTO Ivan Bernier; 9. International regulation of audiovisual services: networks, allocation of scarce resources and terminal equipment David Luff; 10. Lack of clear regulatory framework on safeguards, government procurement and subsidies Jean-Francois Bellis; Part IV. Towards Convergence?: 11. Convergence: a reality check Milton L. Mueller; 13. Whither convergence: legal, regulatory and trade opportunism in telecommunications Robert Frieden; 14. Audiovisual and telecommunications services - a review of definitions under WTO law Paul Nihoul; 15. Dealing with convergence at the international level Pierre Larouche; 16. Overcoming the three digital divides Eli Noam.