Contents

pp v-vi

List of contributors

pp vii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

PART I - Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - Introduction

pp 3-18

PART II - International regulation of telecommunications services

pp 19-20

2 - Telecommunications and audio-visual services in the context of the WTO: today and tomorrow

pp 21-33

3 - Current international trade rules relevant to telecommunications services

pp 34-50

4 - Accounting rates, cross-border services and the next WTO round on basic telecommunications services

pp 51-82

5 - Reforming international accounting rates: a developing country perspective

pp 83-129

6 - Levelling the playing field: is the WTO adequately equipped to prevent anti-competitive practices in telecommunications?

pp 130-162

PART III - International regulation of audio-visual services

pp 163-164

7 - Audio-visual policy: the stumbling block of trade liberalisation

pp 165-214

8 - Content regulation in the audio-visual sector and the WTO

pp 215-242

9 - International regulation of audio-visual services: networks, allocation of scarce resources and terminal equipment

pp 243-274

10 - Lack of clear regulatory framework on safeguards, government procurement and subsidies

pp 275-308

PART IV - Towards convergence?

pp 309-310

11 - Convergence: a reality check

pp 311-322

12 - Whither convergence: legal, regulatory and trade opportunism in telecommunications

pp 323-356

13 - Audio-visual and telecommunications services: a review of definitions under WTO law

pp 357-389

14 - Dealing with convergence at the international level

pp 390-422

15 - Overcoming the three digital divides

pp 423-434

Index

pp 435-453