The WTO and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services

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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.