Arguably one of the most aggressive financial and technological undertakings of recent years, the development of Global Mobile Personal Communications Services (GMPCS) and the supporting network infrastructures world-wide, has been the source of numerous issues and conflicts both legally and politically. The intentions of private enterprise to construct and operate satellite systems capable of providing service literally anywhere in the world has created a somewhat adverse political environment internationally, not to mention a supporting regulatory and legal structure completely devoid of definition. The present manuscript focuses to examine and discuss both the regulatory and legal issues surrounding GMPCS and their evolution towards globally accepted standards and protocols for the effective regulation and technical standardization of the GMPCS industry. Through identification and discussion of the principal regulatory issues, including concerns voiced by national telecommunications administrations, we can begin to seek solutions which will satisfy the diverse global nature of these proposed operations. By further examining pre-existing commitments of nations to liberalize telecommunications markets under the GATS and WTO, we go on to examine the interests of nations to accommodate and/or reject the global nature of GMPCS inclusive of the financial and social impact which the systems promise to impose.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21697 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Perry, James, 1968- |
| Contributors | Janda, Richard (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Air and Space Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001652734, proquestno: MQ50958, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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