Monopoly and competition in British telecommunications
Subtitle: the past, the present, and the future
By: John Harper.
Publisher: Pinter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: British Telecom -- History.; Telecommunication policy -- Great Britain -- History.; Telecommunication systems -- Great Britain -- History.; Privatization -- Great Britain -- History.; Competition -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: This book is an insider's account of the major developments in the UK's telecommunications industry. The author argues that the present-day British experiment with competing public telecommunications networks is hindering, not helping, competition and the development of information highways in the UK. He makes radical proposals for a new telecommunications structure for Britain and the countries of the EU. The volume includes a detailed financial and statistical assessment of Post Office and BT performance up to the present day. It also provides first-hand accounts of the problems of managing a big utility in the stop-go economy of the 1970s, of the increasingly stormy industrial relations record in those years, and of the tortuous story underlying the System X digital exchange development programme.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.