The Republic of Niger Judgment No. American Tel. The Charming Betsy, 6 U. Peracomo Inc. Canada , Franklin Mint Corporation U. S However, with the development of advanced telecommunication systems, telecommunication networks have hardly been confined within national borders. For example, the first submarine telegraph cable between England and France was laid in , while the first commercially successful trans—Atlantic telegraph cable was completed in Thus, it appears to a large extent that one of the fundamental goals for the development of the early telecommunications industry was to provide channels for the fast delivery of communications across national borders.
The existence of the transnational telecommunication networks demand the efficient coordination of scarce spectrum resources as well as the construction of physical communications links across territories that are subject to international law. Furthermore, the strategic importance of telecommunication networks to international trade has also made the telecommunications industry to be subject to legal regimes that govern international trade.
In addition, most developing countries, especially those within the African region consider regional economic and political integration as a major component of their development strategies, in order to promote objectives such as regional political cooperation as well as economic objectives such as free trade, and the development of common markets.
Within that context, telecommunications has been seen as a strategic tool for promoting regional integration and development. Therefore, telecommunications has been subject to regional regimes that seek to promote objectives such as legal and regulatory harmonization and regional integration.
This book discusses the international regulatory regime for telecommunications. The book comprises eleven chapters. Chapter one sets out the introduction and discusses the meaning of telecommunications, the history and evolution of telecommunications, and the concept of international telecommunications law.
Chapter two examines international telecommunications regulatory regimes under the United Nations framework. In particular, the chapter examines telecommunication regimes that exist under United Nations instruments that deal with the international law of the sea and international space law.
Within that context, chapter discusses the international legal regime governing submarine telecommunication cables under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention for the Protection of Telegraph Cables, and the Convention on the Continental Shelf. Chapter five provides an analysis of the ITRs that was adopted in The chapter also examines the challenges affecting the regional harmonization of telecommunication regimes within the framework of the African Union.
Chapter nine discusses the African Telecommunications Union ATU and other African regional telecommunications harmonization initiatives. The chapter also examines the challenges impeding telecommunications regulatory harmonization measures within the ECOWAS framework. Chapter eleven examines sub-regional telecommunication regimes in southern, eastern and central Africa.
Through the discourse, the chapter identifies challenges that impede the effective harmonization of telecommunication regimes in those sub-regions of Africa. Some parts of the outline of this book were originally developed from a brief draft chapter on international and regional telecommunications regulation in my doctoral thesis. Although, that draft chapter was not included in the final version of the submitted thesis, it however helped me to identify an existing knowledge gap on regional telecommunications regulation in Africa.
This prompted me to undertake further independent research on international and regional telecommunications regulation with a view to developing a text that would cover both international telecommunication regimes and African regional telecommunication regimes. This book is a product of that independent research.
The book is largely written as a standard text with each chapter standing alone, and it is meant to serve as a reference material for both academic and professional audiences. Offers authoritative coverage from a lawyer and telecommunications authority who has been working in the field for over three decades.
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