Willem F Korthals Altes
Regulation of telecommunications is inevitable. Ownership and control of the telecommunications infrastructure the right to lay cables across public and private land the use of communication channels and the protection of privacy are among the issues which require rules of law. This is true not only in a completely monopolized environment, but also, and perhaps even more so, in a situation in which competition is allowed to thrive. Since airwaves by their very nature do not stop at national...
Distance Insensitivity
Satellite transmissions throughout a large geographical footprint means that operators incur no additional incremental costs to serve an additional point regardless of its distance from the program source. In terrestrial point-to-point networks, operators can attribute direct costs in extending a network to an additional point. Accordingly, satellites possess a comparative advantage relative to wireline networks for applications that require a large number of distribution points in diverse...
Section Editor Floris G H van den Broek
1.1 Trends in Telecommunications Kornel Terplan 1.1.1 Telecommunications Services Floris G. H. van den Broek 1.1.2 Telecommunications Service Offerings for Business Use Marc Hendrickx 1.1.3 An Enterprise Model for Organizing Telecommunications Companies Rolf de Vegt 1.1.4 Growth Strategies for Telecommunications Operators Roger Wery 1.2.1 Regulation Instruments from a Legal Perspective Willem F. Korthals Altes 1.2.2 A Model for Assessing Regulation in a Country Floris G. H. van den Broek 1.2.3...