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[IWS] OECD Communications Outlook 2007 [July 2007]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
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OECD Communications Outlook 2007 [July 2007]
http://www.oecd.org/document/17/0,3343,en_2649_201185_38876369_1_1_1_1,00.html

Summary
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/3/50/38988835.pdf


Table of contents

Executive Summary

Chapter 1. Policy Issues and Market Structure
Broadband on its way to becoming the dominant telecommunication medium |
Market structure | Emerging policy issues | Sustained growth through transformation

Chapter 2. Recent Communication Policy Developments
Trends in competition | Regulatory issues | Household expenditures on communications

Chapter 3. Telecommunication Market Size
Mobile communications | Broadband | Voice traffic | Research and development

Chapter 4. Network Dimensions and Development
Fixed lines | Blurring of lines between mobile and fixed | Mobile network growth | Wi-Fi | Payphones | Broadband network growth | Investment

Chapter 5. Broadband and Internet Infrastructure
Internet subscribers | Internet hosts | Domain names | Web servers | Secure servers | National and regional Internet development | Peering

Chapter 6. Broadcasting
Market penetration of distribution platforms and digitalisation | Channel and content availability | Changes in market structure | Regulation | Challenges

Chapter 7. Main Trends in Pricing
Residential and business telecommunication baskets | International pricing trends | Mobile pricing trends | Broadband pricing trends | Leased lines

Chapter 8. Trade in Telecommunication Equipment
Worldwide trends in telecommunication equipment trade | Trade among OECD member countries | Comparative advantages | Breakdown of intra-industry trade

Chapter 9. Communications in the Emerging BRICS Economies
Emerging economies | Network dimensions | Comparative position | Policy contexts, structures and developments

Glossary

Annex Tables

The full volume can be browsed for free at the < http://www.oecd.org/bookshop?pub=932007021E1> OECD Online Bookshop.
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