'Eli Noam has made an interesting and useful contribution to the European Community's telecommunications review process.'Richard A. Cawley, Telecommunications Policy, April 1993

• I. Tradition and Change 1: Public Telecommunications: A Concept in Transition 2: The Establishment of the PTT System 3: Network Tipping: The Rise and Fall of the Public Network Monopoly 4: Forces of Centrifugalism 5: Defense of the Telecommunications Monopoly 6: Policy Directions II. The Telecommunications Systems of European Countries 7: Germany 8: The United Kingdom 9: France Telecommunications in the Benelux and Alpine Countries 10: The Netherlands 11: Belgium 12: Luxembourg 13: Switzerland 14: Austria Telecommunications in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic 15: Sweden 16: Finland 17: Norway 18: Denmark 19: Iceland 20: Ireland Telecommunications in the Mediterranean Countries and Eastern Europe 21: Italy 22: Spain 23: Portugal 24: Israel 25: Turkey 26: Greece 27: Telecommunications in Eastern Europe III. Battlefronts in Telecommunications Policy 28: The International Organizations of Telecommunications 29: Brussels Takes on the Traditional System 30: Telecommunications Policy as Industrial Policy 31: Transatlantic Trade Friction 32: International Telecommunications Services 33: The Economics if ISDN Integration 34: The Political Economy of ISDN 35: Value-Added Networks and Services 36: Videotex 37: Transborder Data Flows IV. The Future of Telecommunications 38: Networks in the Future 39: Toward a Modular Network 40: Telecommunications Liberalization: An Expansionary Process? 41: Regulatory Tasks for the Future: Interconnectivity in the Pluralist Network 42: The Pluralist Network Notes References Index