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Mobile and PSTN Communication Services: Competition or Complementarity? (STI Digital Economy Paper 13)

Mobile communication services, especially analogue cellular radio, have been one of the success stories of the last decade in the telecommunication industry. At the start of 1991, there were almost eleven million subscribers to cellular radio in ...

The Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Telecommunication Numbering (STI Digital Economy Paper 12)

This report focuses on the policy issues that arise from the process of restructuring of national numbering schemes.

International Telecommunication Tariffs: Charging Practices and Procedures, No. 34 (STI Digital Economy Paper 6)

The pricing structure for the provision if international telecommunication services has become a key issue for policy makers in recent years.

Telecommunications and Broadcasting: convergence or collision? No. 29 (STI Digital Economy Paper 5)

This report analyses the evidence for convergence, examines the policy questions which arise and presents a country-by-country review of current regulation in this field.

Telecommunications Equipment: Changing Markets and Trade Structures, No. 24 (STI Digital Economy Paper 3)

This report looks specifically at trade trends in OECD countries over the past ten years, analysing industrial policy initiatives and direct or indirect measures affecting telecommunications equipment trade.

Universal Service and Rate Restructuring in Telecommunications, No. 23 (STI Digital Economy Paper 4)

This report examines two issues at the centre of the debate concerning the restructuring of telecommunications services.

Trade in Information, Computer and Communication Services, No. 21 (STI Digital Economy Paper 2)

Negotiations on trade in services are a key issue in the context of the multilateral trade negotiations of the Uruguay Round. The two studies contained in this report examine how trade in services concepts could be applied to information, compute...

Chap5-QualServ.pdf

Summary

The report summarises the initial set of indicators used by the OECD to compare the development of telecommunications in Member countries. The report includes a summary of the original methodology for comparing telecommunication tariffs. Publis...

OECD Declaration on Transborder Data Flows (STI Digital Economy Paper 1)

This declaration is intended to make clear the general spirit in which OECD Member countries will address policy issues connected with these transborder data flows.