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This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the UK’s telecoms market, with full analyses of the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors. Subjects include:

• Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
• Facts, figures and statistics;
• Industry and regulatory issues;
• Infrastructure;
• Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
• Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
• Mobile Voice and Data Markets;
• Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
• Convergence and Digital Media;
• 3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015;
• Broadband market forecasts for selective years to 2020.

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This is the first sustained comparative examination of the importance of media attention on the provision of economic assistance, suggesting that the news media is an important medium for policy makers to gauge potential domestic political pressures and thus the need to be responsive and even anticipatory in addressing problems real or perceived. Particular attention is paid to the responsiveness of bureaucracies, long held to among the most insulated institutions of government. Cross-national in scope, this book looks at the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Japan, facilitating a nuanced understanding of the interaction of international and domestic politics as mediated by the media.
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Michael Brecher wrote: "A rigorous analysis of foreign aid"
(From Michael Brecher's review on the back cover) "This is an ambitious--and successful--attempt at theoretical integration, with a valuable empirical component. Basing their analysis on the domestic political imperatives model of foreign policy decision-making and the principal-agent model (agency theory), Van Belle, Rioux and Potter dissect, with laudable rigor, key strands of the politics of foreign aid. Their comparative analysis of overseas development aid (ODA) programs by the five largest developed donor states adds an instructive case study dimension. And they have used their rich, genuinely comparable data to generate important findings. As such, this book goes far beyond the typical one-dimensional studies of the role of the news media and the media-bureaucracy nexus in decision-making relating to foreign aid." ... Read more

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The ten years following the end of the Second World War were critical years in the history of British broadcasting.They witnessed the rise of television and the end of the BBC's monopoly.This fourth volume of Asa Briggs's detailed study is based on a mass of hitherto unexplored documentary evidence, much, but not all of it, from the BBC's own voluminous archives.It examines in detail how and why some of the key decisions affecting broadcasting policy - domestic and external - were reached and what were their effects.

Yet it is more than an institutional history.One long chapter deals with the changing arts and techniques of broadcasting news and views, politics, drama, features and variety, music, religion, education and sport.It describes a pattern of broadcasting - and a society and culture - already remote from our own. At every point the main contours of society and culture are explored. It ends with the first night of competitive television and with contemporary assessments of the likely impact of television on sound broadcasting and other media.

It is profusely illustrated and can be read either as complete in itself or as one fascinating phase in the unfolding history of British broadcasting. ... Read more

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Now in its 34th edition, this is the most authoritative, detailed trade directory available for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.Now in its 34th edition, and compiled in association with the Publishers Association, this is the most authoritative, detailed trade directory available for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, listing some 950 book publishers. Comprehensive entries include, where available: full contact details including addresses and websites; details of distribution and sales and marketing agents; key personnel; listing of main fields of activity; information on annual turnover, numbers of new titles and numbers of employees; ISBN prefixes, including those for imprints and series; details of trade association membership; information on overseas representation; and, details of associated and parent companies.In addition to the detailed entries on publishers, the Directory offers in-depth coverage of the wider UK book trade and lists 550 organizations associated with the book trade: packagers, authors' agents, trade and allied associations and services.Detailed Appendices and Indexes include publishers classified by field of speciality; ISBN prefix numbers; names of key personnel; publishers' imprints; agents and associations; publishers by postcode. ... Read more

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The new technologies and the liberalization of the broadcasting and telecommunications market, together with the digitalization and globalization of new services have challenged irrevocably not only the traditional markets and instructional structures but also the legal systems of broadcasting and telecommunication sectors in the 21st century. This text examines and analyzes how regulations have been developed mainly at national level, and in particular the regulation of British broadcasting and television advertising in the deregulation/re-regulation and liberalization era. It takes into account changes in digital broadcasting and telecommunication by pointing out that convergence is the process through which broadcasting, telecommunication, press and information sectors are transformed into new sectors (info-com arteries, info-com products, info-com services and info-com content) in order to be fully compatible with the emerging new info-communication industry in the digital transformation and info-communication era.It also recommends a new definition and a set of global principals of public interest in info-communication policy, together with the regulatory model process and product regulation as useful analytical tools for future research projects on the dynamics of regulation and the emerging new info-communication policy in the 21st century. ... Read more

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This book consists of a careful analysis of the comparative advertising directive,giving background both to the regulation of comparative advertising in the United Kingdom and Germany and to the passing of the directive. It will bring to a UK reader the latest in thinking on comparative advertising from Germany, where the directive has been the subject of very extensive recent debate. The book also has four appendices in which UK, German and European material is given (all in English). The directive applies to any advertisement (or indeed any representation of any kind made to promote goods or services) that explicitly or implicitly identifies a competitor. It therefore has the potential to regulate such claims as ... Read more

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An excellent guide
Ohly and Spence have produced a very useful guide to a complicated but important area of the law. The authors examine the important jurisprudence in the area with insight and flair. They have distilled the important points and demonstrated a number of flaws in various European directives or proposals. ... Read more

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This is the third part of a five-volume history of broadcasting in the UK, giving an authoritative account of the rise of broadcasting in this country.

This volume covering the period from 1939 to 1945, is concerned not only with the impact of the Second World War on the structure, organization, and programmes of the BBC, itself a fascinating subject; it also deals directly with the role of the BBC outside as well as inside Britain within the context of the general political and military history of the war; an exciting, complicated, sometimes controversial role, strangely neglected by historians. ... Read more