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Telecommunications regulation : culture, chaos, and interdependence inside the regulatory process
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- Summary
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Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside.
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- Creator
- Clare Hall, Colin Scott, and Christopher Hood
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations, tables
- ISBNs
- 1280143622, 0203984536, 9780415199490, 9780203984536, 9781280143625, 0415199492
- OCLC
- ocn475944009, ocm41338928, ocn936904477
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-243) and index.
- English
- Front Cover; Telecommunications Regulation; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1. Ducts, poles and holes in the ground: the inner world of telecommunications regulation; 2. The archaeology of a regulatory regime; Part II: Culture and regulation; 3. Peculiar place, peculiar culture: organizing and structuring the regulatory office; Part III: The absolutist myth in regulation; 4. 'Oftel c'est moi': the role of the individual DGT; 5. Oftel in space: interdependence and accountability; Part IV: Decision-making; 6. Regulatory decision styles
- 7. Price controls and numbering administration: Cartesian-bureaucratic issue-processing episodes; 8. Regulating anti-competitive conduct and not regulating hotel phone pricing: adhocratic chaotic issue-processing episodes; 9. Complaint-handling, licence enforcement and anti-competitive conduct II: bargaining diplomatic issue-processing episodes; Part V: Lessons learnt; 10. Regulatory science, regulatory policy and possible regulatory futures; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index