This collection of seventeen articles on business and public policy problems facing the international telecommunications industry discusses the ways in which deregulation and the attendant
promise of market driven investment and profitability have failed to produce a stable business climate for maintaining and expanding telecom networks. Collected from papers delivered at the
International Telecommunications Society European Regional Conference held in Rome in 2008, the articles fall into three broad categories covering strategies for expansion of broadband
networks, pricing for next generation networking networks and the development and pricing of mobile services. Individual articles cover such topics as regulation and investment incentives,
subsidized rural broadband, risk sharing within European Union regulatory frameworks and pricing of mobile service bundles. Contributors include telecom business experts, and academics from a
variety of fields including economics, public policy, engineering and communications technology from around the world. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
