The Rise of Globalism in Communications
 

October 29, 1993
Sponsored by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.

Summary Program

As geographic markets, networks, and products are redefined, there is a subsequent blurring of jurisdiction and media categories. Traditionally, international forms of telecommunication services were always collaborations of territorial or service monopolies. Today, telecommunications organizations an d their services cross borders. New forms of competition and collaboration are being established and new markets are being addressed.


MegaMedia: The Growth of International Media Conglomerates
W. Russell Neuman, Tufts University
The Evolution of Global Networks: The Precarious Balance between Governments and Markets
Jonathan Aronson, University of Southern California

  • Discussants:
    • Oscar Gandy, University of Pennsylvania
    • Gene Pardas, MCI International
    • Ross MacKinnon, Stentor, Canada
    • Masaharu Okada, NTT America
Global Telecommunications Services: The Regulatory Change
Keith Bernard, Cable & Wireless
Challenge to Globalization: Toward a New Framework of Telecommunications Policy
Yoshiko Kurisaki, OECD
  • Discussants:
    • Janice Obuchowski, Freedom Technologies
    • Fritz Ringling, Network Dynamics Assocs, Intl
    • Konnie Schaefer, PTT Swiss Telecom, USA
    • Robert Cohen, Economic Strategy Institute

Economics of Scope and Scale in Global Networks
 Alain de Fontenay, TELA Groupe
Investment and Structural Trends in Multinational Services
Richard Kramer, Northern Telecom

  • Discussants:
    • Richard Cawley, Commission of the European Communities
    • Bernell Wright, CitiCorp

Learning Alliances and Multinational Growth in Telecommunications Service
Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino
Telegeography and the Explosion of Place: Why the Network Which is Bringing the World Together is Also Pulling it Apart
Gregory Staple, Koteen & Naftalin

  • Discussants:
    • Belia Engelhardt, Telia, Sweden
    • Yves Gassot, IDATE, France
    • Charlie Oliver, NTIA



Organized by:
Eli Noam, CITI
Gary W. Ozanich, CITI