Message from the Chair.
Dear ITS Members, Over the past fifteen months the ITS has convened and supported six conferences and workshops: Berlin (September 2004), Hong Kong (June 2005), Pontevedra (July 2005), Perth (August, 2005), Porto (September, 2005) and Montpellier (November, 2005). It has been a remarkable year for the ITS,...

Impacts of new technologies on regulatory regimes: introductory comments.
Abstract: Traditional regulatory doctrine has been called into question by rapid technological change and convergence. With the migration to packet switched networks, the emergence of the internet protocol (IP) and the expansion of the mobile industry, regulators are encountering major challenges in responding to new innovations "just in time"...

We need 'net neutrality' regulation--now!
In recent months, the debate over "Net Neutrality" seems to have grown louder with each passing week. The voices of communication industry leaders, trade groups and, finally, U.S. congressmen and senators have risen--in chorus and in conflict--over a concept that could eventually change how the Internet works for everyone....

Joseph W. Goodman: Telecommunications Policy-Making in the European Union.
Joseph W. GOODMAN Telecommunications Policy-Making in the European Union Edward Elgar, 2006, 299 pages This well-written book deals with the emergence and shaping of telecommunications policy in Europe, with a particular focus on the time period of 1987-1998. The book also reviews the...

New technologies and ICT regulation towards a paradigm shift?
The ICT sector has undergone some dramatic changes in recent years, triggered by the development of new technologies and the convergence of existing ones, leading to a merging of markets and services. These developments affect traditional policy strategies, raising the question of how to deal with growing pressure to...

Stripping cable: the war on "indecency".
FREED FROM the fetters that bind broadcasters using "the public airwaves," cable and satellite providers are able to pipe into our homes the indecent, gratuitous, excessively violent programming that all right-thinking Americans demand. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) wants to change that. Rockefeller hopes to incorporate portions of...

Cable networks to FCC: "get with the program"; Cable a la carte dishes up turmoil for networks and DR media buyers.
Hindsight is 20/20, but the foresight of direct response media buyers must be just as sharp. There's minimal room for guessing and even less room for learning after mistakes are made, so it is imperative that they be equipped with as much information and strategy as possible to decide...

Use-IT: ICT services: who will consume what in France through 2010? *.
Through 2010 the perspectives are for moderate growth of around 1.6% per year. Contrasting developments: a boom in mobile services and Internet, a declining fixed voice market and a steady outlook for pay TV and content. The telecoms budget should continue to overshadow the content budget (TV, music, films...

President Bush, meet Lorraine.
Here's the news that rocked my little world this month: We got a message that a family friend, let's call her Lorraine, who was in an ICU, barely able to breathe on her own. In the last few weeks, there'd been some mumblings about "not feeling a hundred percent,"...

The State of Telecom: a trans-atlantic dialogue.
October 20, 2006 At Columbia University New York, New York On Friday, October 20, 2006, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Institut de l'Audiovisuel et des Telecommunications en Europe (IDATE) will link their respective annual reviews of the North American and European...