Communications - The next decade

Introduction

Foreword    (90 kB)

Overview

SECTION 1 - TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

• Our changing media ecosystem - John Naughton
• Private is the new public - Jonathan L. Zittrain
• Why TV regulation will become telecom regulation - Eli M. Noam
• Serving the public good in the digital age: implications for UK media regulation - Carolyn Fairbairn
• The consumer agenda on regulation - Ed Mayo, Philip Cullum

SECTION 2 - THE CHANGING NATURE OF REGULATION IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

• The public interest challenges for the communications sector over the next 10 years: contestable public service funding - Chris Giles
• What citizens need to know. Digital exclusion, information inequality and rights - Damian Tambini
• The continuing need to advance the public interest - David Puttnam
• The revolution of audio-visual services culture, economy or both? - Ruth Hieronymi

SECTION 3 - ECONOMIC REGULATION BEYOND 2010

• Creating an environment for rapid innovation - Irwin Stelzer
• The challenges of a digital world and the need for a new regulatory paradigm - Leonard Waverman
• Market-based alternatives or complements to regulation - Jonathan Cave
• Communications policy, economic policy. The inextricable link - Reed Hundt

SECTION 4 - UTILISING THE AIRWAVES

• The future of regulation – not - Peter Cochrane
• New spectrum-using technologies and the future of spectrum management: a European policy perspective - Martin Cave
• Spectrum management and the achievement of policy goals – an independent regulator’s perspective - Isolde Goggin
• An economic evaluation of spectrum allocation policy - Thomas W. Hazlett

SECTION 5 - GLOBAL AREAS OF FOCUS

• The genie is out of the bottle - Charles Leadbeater
• Processes and institutions: new perspectives on policymaking and regulatory authorities - Philip Booth
• The changing nature of regulation: policy, process and accountability within the European Union - Graham Mather
• The convergence continuum model: a framework for analysing regulatory reform in Asia-Pacific - Steve Burdon
• Possibilities for deregulation: a case study of Hong Kong - M. H. Au

All contributors have been asked to write in a personal capacity. Views expressed are those of the authors, not those of Ofcom.

Introduction    (72 kB)

Overview    (247 kB)

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Foreword, Biographies, Introduction and Overview    (657 kB)

SECTION 1 - TRENDS AND CHALLENGES    (1565 kB)

SECTION 2 - THE CHANGING NATURE OF REGULATION IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST    (1596 kB)

SECTION 3 - ECONOMIC REGULATION BEYOND 2010    (985 kB)

SECTION 4 - UTILISING THE AIRWAVES    (1406 kB)

SECTION 5 - GLOBAL AREAS OF FOCUS    (2567 kB)

Communications - The next decade    (8378 kB)

Communications - The next decade