Telecommunications Policy in the European Union: Developing the Information Superhighway

Peter Curwen

Journal of Common Market Studies, 1995, vol. 33, issue 3, 331-360

Abstract: By the end of this century, the telecommunications market in the European Union will have been transformed from a collection of national monopolies providing little apart from basic voice telephony and Value‐Added Network Services (VANS) into a unified, competitive market for multimedia services ‐ or at least that is the intention behind a series of directives issued by the European Commission. This should open up enormous opportunities for service providers, whatever their origin, and the process of forming the necessary alliances for world‐wide coverage has begun in earnest. A first step, in many cases, is the privatization of the national monopoly provider. New forms of competition such as cable and mobile telephony are springing up with unprecedented speed ‐ so fast, indeed, that the consumer is being left in the wake of the technology.

Date: 1995
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