Industry Viewpoint

• Information Paper for the 2nd ITU World Telecommunications Policy Forum (PDF), Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT), March 1998 (WinWord)

• Review of Cost Issues in International Settlements (PDF), David N. Townsend, December 1997 (WinWord)

• Coalition of Service Industries Statement on the World Trade Organization Group on Basic Telecommunications Reference Paper, October 1997.
  (http://www.uscsi.org/).

• Cross-border interconnection and accounting rates: A competition law and newcomers' perspective (PDF). Presentation by Kees van Ophem, General Counsel, Unisource Carrier Services, Switzerland, IBA-Conference at Cannes, April 17, 1997 (PowerPoint).

• Market Access: Problems and Solutions (PDF), Report of the Satellite Action Plan (SAP) Regulatory Working Group (RWG), 29 January 1997 (WinWord)

• The Collapse of the International Accounting Rates System and the Rise of Cost-Based Global Telephony, C. Holland Taylor, PTC, Hawaii, January 1997.

• Why is the United States whining about its own creation? Maev Sullivan in Communications Week International, 20 January 1997.

• The Settlement Rate Rip-Off, Scott Blake Harris in Communications Week International, 16 December 1996.

• The International Telecommunications Settlements Process: What is needed? Destroy and replace it or adjust it? (PDF) Peter A. Stern, Teleglobe Canada Inc., Montreal, IIC Telecommunications Forum, 25 - 26 October 1990, Washington. (HTML), (WinWord).

• The International Spot Rates Homepage, M.J.Scheele & Associates, 1997.

• This link is has been added recently following an article published by  Dr. William H. Melody in Telecommunications Policy, 1999.

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