Includes bibliographical references and index.

Telecommunications regulations : institutional structures and responsibilities / Wonki Min -- The changing role of telecommunications in the economy : globalisation and Its impact on national telecommunications policy / Yoshiko Kurisaki -- International telecommunications / Rohan Kariyawasam -- Mitigating regulatory risk in telecommunications / Peter L. Smith and Björn Wellenius -- Telecommunication services and the World Trade Organization / Marco C.E.J. Bronckers and Pierre Larouche -- Users' rights? : the multilateral rules on access to telecommunications / Lee Tuthill -- The GATS and new rules for regulators / Lee Tuthill -- The WTO and the reference paper : an ostensible blueprint for entry / Mark Naftel and Lawrence J. Spiwak -- Telecommunications and WTO discipline : an assessment of the WTO agreement on telecommunication services / Markus Fredebeul-Krein and Andreas Freytag -- Protocol interfaces are the new bottlenecks : what the internet means for telecom regulation / Timothy Denton -- Defining dominance for bits and bytes : a new layering theory for interpreting significant market power? / Rohan Kariyawasam -- The telmex dispute at the WTO : competition makes a backdoor entry / Sonali Singh -- The WTO's first antitrust case : mexican telecom : a sleeping victory for trade and competition / Eleanor M. Fox -- Tangibles, intangibles and services : a new taxonomy for the classification of output / Peter Hill -- The classification of electronic intangibles in the WTO / Rohan Kariyawasam -- Electronic commerce and the GATS negotiations / Claude E. Barfield -- Electronic commerce and Gats negotiation (Some Comments on a paper by Claude E. Barfield) / Harald Sander.

The internet, cross-border trade in services, and the GATS : lessons from US-gambling / Sacha Wunsch-Vincent -- Treaty interpretation and the WTO appellate body report in US : gambling : a critique / Federico Ortino -- Internet gambling and betting services : when the GATS' rules are not applied due to the public morals/public order exception : what lessons can be learnt? / Maria Veronica Perez Asinari -- v. 2. A call for the WTO E-Commerce initiative / Heinz Hauser and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent --Multilateral and European responses to E-Commerce / Daniel Piazolo -- The digital trade agenda of the U.S. : parallel tracks of bilateral, regional and multinational liberalization / Sacha Wunsch-Vincent -- Electronic commerce and international trade rules / Michael Hart and Ramesh Chaitoo -- Regulation of services traded electronically / Olivier Cattaneo and Julia Nielson -- Electronic commerce : a cluster approach to the negotiation of input services / Rosemary Morris -- The role of intellectual property rights in encouraging foreign direct investment and technology transfer / Keith E. Maskus -- Intellectual property rights in the new economy : technological changes and the protection of intellectual property rights / Olivier Cattaneo-- Implications of intellectual property rights for the access to and use of information technologies in developing countries / Carlos M. Correa -- Bilateralism in intellectual property / Peter Drahos -- Across the digital divide : a cross-country, multi-technology analysis of the determinants of IT penetration / Sanjeev Dewan, Dale Ganley and Kenneth L. Kraemer.

ICT and development : east is east and west is west and the twain may yet meet : on the process of implementing an ICT-Strategy in the norwegian agency for development cooperation (NORAD) / Lars T. Soeftestad and Maung K. Sein -- Developing countries and telecommunications / Rohan Kariyawasam -- Implementing telecommunications liberalization in developing countries after the WTO agreement on basic telecommunications services / Peter F. Cowhey and Mikhail M. Kilmenko -- E-commerce, WTO, and developing countries / Arvind Panagariya -- Electronic commerce in developing countries : issues for domestic policy and WTO negotiations / Catherine L. Mann -- Issues on the relationship between E-commerce and intellectual property rights in the WTO : implications for developing countries / David Vivas Eugui.