عنوان

An analysis of satellite services policy-making in Britain.

شماره

TLets359094

عنوان اصلي

An analysis of satellite services policy-making in Britain.

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Hughes, Rosemary.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Sussex

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1993

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Sussex

امتياز متن

1993

متن يادداشت

The combination of technical advances and growing demand for modernisedcommunications infrastructures has led to the introduction of new types of husinesscommunication services. The British Government continued its pioneering role in Europeantelecommunications with its release of six Specialised Satellite Service Operators' (SSSOs)licences in October 1988. The results are assessed, through in-depth interviews andextensive desk research, according to the Government's two main political ohjectives: toencourage further competition in telecommunications and to stimulate the growth ofinnovative new business services.The policy problem for the government was to achieve these aims, whileprotecting the PTO duopoly of BT and Mercury Communications Ltd. The result was aregulatory compromise, which served to undermine the efforts of the early operators tobuild innovative business network operations. At the same time, thanks to its role asSignatory to the European satellite organisations, BT's dominance of the UK satellitecommunications sector continued.Observed from a pluralist perspective, an analysis of Britain's satellite servicepolicy process and implementation provides a clear illustration of the etrect of interestgroups on policy-making. The extension of liberalisation to the satellite services' sectorstemmed directly from the demands of putative service providers and large potential users.Their persuasive arguments rested on the macro-economic and political henetits of newsatellite technology.The policy style which characterised the formulation and implementation ofthe SSSO licensing was incrementalist This, in part, derived from the changing regulatoryenvironment of other European countries, but also from the responsiveness of policymakersto continual demands for further liberalisation. The recent Conservativegovernments have taken a reactive approach to new communications technology, which ic;demonstrated by a policy process based on a short period of consultation. a hout of rapiddecision-making and cautious implementation.As with cable TV, Government insistence on a policy of 'facilitation' wasintended to provide opportunities for new operators: the extent and pace of satelliteservices' development would be dictated by the market. But this goal was undermined hyalack of coherence in policy implementation and a process of restrictive hureaucratisation.Above all, external factors, such as the uneven nature of satellite services' liheralisationacross Europe and the continued PTT control over access to satellite capacity constitutedmajor brakes on market developmentThe research has shown that, in choosing the original six SSSOs, theGovernment did not so much 'pick winners' as select guineapigs, who tested the market forthose who would follow and paved the way for further liberalisation. Five years after therelease of the six SSSO licences, there remains little competition in satellite services.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hughes, Rosemary.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Sussex

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y