Tubby Mass On Telecommunications

Telecommunications: a towering theme to write on

One of the books that late arrived at the IPKat's door was the bit edition of Telecommunications Law together with Regulation, published this twelvemonth past times Oxford University Press and edited past times Queen Mary scholars Ian Walden together with John Angel. It's been particularly developed equally a textbook for the Telecommunications Law course of written report on the Univesity of London LLM, offered past times the Institute of Computer together with Communications Law at QM's Centre for Commercial Law Studies.

As the publishers state nearly it:

"The recent consolidation of regulators inwards the Great Britain makes this a real timely publication, providing practitioners amongst an extremely thorough survey of the police together with regulatory structures related to telecommunications. Written past times many of the leading experts together with practitioners inwards the field, it is a reliable root of reference for practitioners together with academics alike. Covering UK, EU, U.S.A. together with other international systems, it offers a comparative together with rounded overview of the global telecommunication manufacture together with its regulation. This bit edition is fully updated, together with contains novel chapters on 'Sources of Law', 'Technology, Terminology together with Market Structure', 'Intellectual Property Issues', together with 'Content Regulation', including broadcasting, network together with premium charge per unit of measurement services. The coverage of emerging markets is much expanded amongst an extensive novel chapter on regulatory frameworks for developing countries.

This edition does non only update its predecessor but makes around structural changes too. Thus you lot volition find

* a chapter on Technology, Terminology together with Market Structure;

* a novel chapter on Telecommunications, Standards together with IP Issues;

* the one-time chapter on 'Regulatory Convergence: The Impact of Broadcasting together with Other Laws' has been replaced past times 'Content Regulation'.

£75 for a paperback textbook may audio expensive, but for over 700 pages on a niche theme such equally Telecommunications Law the cost looks reasonable enough.