Publisher's Synopsis
This is a sourcebook of EU telecommunications legislation. It contains treaty articles, directives, communications, notices, recommendations and decisions, accompanied by commentary. The book includes coverage of: treaty articles, including articles from the EU Treaty and the General Agreement on Trade and Services and its Annex on Telecommunication; harmonization directives, including the Framework Directive, and directives on leased lines, licensing, number portability and carrier pre-selection; liberalization directives; communications, notices and recommendations on interconnection prices, accounting, application of competition rules, definition of relevant market, market power and universal service; and decisions on ISDN as trans-European network, plus trans-European network guidelines.