Examining the emergence of a European Union telecommunications policy, Joseph Goodman explains how and why the policy developed as it did and why certain reforms in the sector were easier to achieve than others. He provides a history of the key actors in the policy-making process from the first attempts by the national postal, telegraph, and telecommunication administrations to coordinate their telecommunications policies in the 1950s, to the implementation of a comprehensive EU telecommunications regulatory structure in 1998 and the development of a new regulatory structure in 2003.
Foreword Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Historical Background 1. Conceptualising Policy Making in European Telecommunications 2. Policy Making in the United Kingdom, France and Germany 3. The Institutionalisation of EU Telecommunications Part II: The Harmonisation of European Telecommunications Policies 4. The Formulation of European Union Telecommunications Policies 5. Inter-Institutional Bargaining in European Union Telecommunications 6. Limits to the Europeanisation of Telecommunications Part III: The Liberalisation of European Telecommunications 7. Applying EU Competition Law to the Telecommunications Sector 8. The Full Liberalisation of European Telecommunications Part IV: Towards a New Regulatory Framework and Theoretical Approach 9. Towards the 2003 Electronic Communications Framework 10. Conclusion: Towards a Synthetic Approach for Analysis Bibliography Index