The relationship between national and European regulation of telecommunications

Abstract

European and US scholars of communications, telecommunications, and politics undertook a pilgrimage of their own devise to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in April 2000 to analyze the recent transformations of the telecommunications regulatory regime in Europe, the market developments, and its implications for the development of a European Information Society. The 11 published papers have been revised, some substantially, from the original presentations. They discuss such topics as Portugal and Spain as examples of the persistence of telecommunications policies in national states, and overcoming institutional fragmentation and policy failure to create the new society