Telecommunications law in the Internet age /

For companies in and around the telecommunications field, the past few years have been a time of extraordinary change-technologically and legally. The enacting of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the development of international trade agreements have fundamentally changed the environment in wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Sharon K.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2002.
Series:Morgan Kaufmann series in networking.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the new telecommunications environment
  • Competition and regulation, a continuing telecommunications cycle
  • The Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • Outstanding issues from the Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • The World Trade Organization and its telecommunications-related agreements
  • Participating in global telecommunications trade : U.S. import and export laws
  • Licensing to protect telecommunications intellectual property
  • Privacy
  • Encryption
  • Cyberlaw : evolving legal issues with the Internet.