Tracing New Orbits : Cooperation and Competition in Global Satellite Development / Donna A. Demac.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demac, Donna A., editor.

Series:

Columbia Studies in Business, Government, and Society

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents papers which examine issues to be addressed in order to bring about stable, peaceful, and equitable satellite communications. Also looks at the challenges to INTELSAT.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE ACTIVITY: CHALLENGES OF THE 1980s

I. The Search for a Stable Regulatory Framework / Christol, Carl Q.

II. Will Satellites and Optical Fiber Collide or Coexist? / Layton, Roy A.

PART II. THE EMERGENCE OF SPECIALIZED AND REGIONAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS

III. Competition by Private Carriers in International Commercial Satellite Traffic: Conceptual and Historical Background / Snow, Marcellus S.

IV. INTELSAT: Responding to New Challenges / Pelton, Joseph N.

V. The Reality of Change, Satellite Technology, Economics, and Institutional Resistance / Vizas, Christopher J.

VI. The Entry of New Satellite Carriers in International Telecommunications : Some Interests of Developing Nations / Goldschmidt, Douglas

PART III. NATIONAL PROGRAMS AND PERSPECTIVES

VII. The Theology of Satellite Television: Dogmas That Are Holding Up the Progress of Satellite Television / Maddox, Brenda

VII. The Doldrums of Europe's TV Landscape: Coronet as Catalyst / Hirsch, Mario

IX. Canada's Space Policy / Evans, W. M.

X. Research and Development Policy in the United States: Implications for Satellite Communications / Weingarten, Fred W. / Wilk, Charles

XI. Commercial Space Policy: Theory and Practice / Freibaum, Jerry

XII. Piracy of Satellite-Transmitted Copyright Material in the Americas: Bane or Boon? / Ospina, Sylvia

PART IV. REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE ACTIVITY

XIII. A Canadian Perspective on the 1985 ITU Space Conference / Montgomery, William H.

XIV. Access to Information Resources: The Developmental Context of the Space WARC / Hudson, Heather E.

XV. The Role of International Satellite Networks / Dizard, Wilson

XVI. Latecomer Cost Handicap: Importance in a Changing Regulatory Landscape / Levin, Harvey J.

PART V. SOVIET SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

XVII. Cooperation and Competition in Satellite Communication: The Soviet Union / Downing, John D. H.

XVII. A Television Window on the Soviet Union / Schaffer, Ken

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89863-0

OCLC:

1100435697