Abstract:
To appreciate the implications of recent government and regulatory decisions advancing competition in certain local network and long-distance telecommunications services, new regulatory and pricing mechanisms, and even an entirely new legal framework, it is necessary to recover the historical…

Abstract:
In 1992 the agency responsible for regulating Canadian Telecommunications, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), authorized Unitel Communications Inc. to provide a public long-distance telephone service. For the first time Bell Canada, and six of the other telephone…

Abstract:
Over the last few years, academic discussions
about the state of communications in the Americas, particularly
those discussions taking place in the northern part of the continent,
sometimes slide into one or more of the following misunderstandings:
the provincialist…

Abstract:
The recently developed microeconomic model of one-way international
flows in films and television programs is shown to be a specific
application of a more general model of trade in media products.
Predictions of the general model are consistent with…