Audio-visual and telecommunications services: A review of definitions under WTO law

The WTO and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 357-389

  Nihoul, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84927082399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511674471.014     Document Type: Chapter

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1. The United Nations drafted a classification of products and services (Statistical Papers, Series M, No. 77, 1991).
2. The definition given above corresponds with those given in European Union law (Voice telephony)
3. They also correspond with US definitions (telephony) ‘A form of telecommunication set up for the transmission of speech or, in some cases, other sounds’ (47 Code of Federal Regulations 2.1, 21.2).
4. The same observation can be made with respect to a minimum telecom service. This concept has so far been associated with telephony. However, bearing in mind what is considered nowadays to be an essential service, Minimum access to the Internet may be considered as a fundamental service, as it is a condition for people to remain ‘connected’ to the world.