Polish communications law: telecommunications takes off in transition countries but at what price are they becoming wired?
ABSTRACT Internationally, the urge to expand and improve telecommunications services is spreading. Transition countries, attempting the leap from Third World status to becoming world leaders, have caught the fever and have attempted to reform their regulations governing telecommunications. In large part these laws have induced slow liberalization...

Traditional paradigms for new services? The Commission proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'.
Abstract: For over 10 years the European Community has strived to develop suitable and proportionate answers to the phenomenon of convergence in its audiovisual regulatory policy. This article outlines the regulatory process at an EU level since the early 1980s as far as media, telecommunications and Information Society services...

The role of licence-exemption in spectrum reform (*).
Abstract: Spectrum reform initiatives in the US and Europe have identified a need to move away from the traditional "command and control" approach towards flexible and tradable licences and licence-exemption. Current regulatory initiatives are tending to focus on the flexible licensing route, and there is a risk that licence-exemption...

Political TV commercials: a world of special rules.
Strange as election campaigns seem to many of us, they must seem stranger still to owners and operators of television stations. Political television rules -- those special laws that govern news and commercials relating to election campaigns -- are as out of whack with normal publishing and broadcasting principles...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...

Structural changes in telecommunications and regulatory policy in Japan (*).
Abstract: This paper discusses and evaluates telecommunications regulatory policy in Japan taking into account the structural changes in the industry. The first section of the paper describes the basic concept of regulation in telecommunications, and is followed by an outline of privatisation, the introduction of competition in Japan and...

Satellite digital radio searching for novel theories of action.
The law "has become a conscious reaction upon itself of organized society knowingly seeking to determine its own destines." (1) Law intrudes upon new technology to regulate its operation and determine its allowable societal impact. This note focuses primarily upon the legal effect of Satellite Digital Audio Radio (SDAR),...

Consolidated Telcom delivers latest VoIP software to rural N.D.
For many years, the City of Dickinson, Southwest Multi-County Correction Center and the Stark County government offices had separate telephone systems. The staff's multiple phone lines between the six government entities resulted in costly telephone bills each month. It wasn't long before several city and county officials decided something...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...