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Disaster or opportunity?
— the impact of telecommunications deregulation on people with disabilities | | Author(s) | John Gill, Tony Shipley |
| Corporate Author | Scientific Research Unit, Royal National Institute for the Blind - RNIB; COST 219 UK Group |
| Publisher | RNIB, London, 1997 |
| Pages | 29 pp |
| Source | RNIB, 224 Great Portland Street, London W1N 6AA. |
| Keywords | Telephone ; Physical disabilities ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; European Union. |
| Annotation | As the result of European legislation, deregulation and liberalisation of telephone services in the European Union will be largely completed by 1 January 1998. Although the Universal Service allows national regulators to make specific provisions for disabled users, there is no statement or guidance as to what these provisions might be. This document looks at safeguards for disabled users, and outlines the Universal Service and the market in telephone equipment. Annexes review the European Directives on liberalisation of telecommunications and telephone terminal equipment, the European Single Market, and proposals for an EC Directive on Interconnection in Telecommunications, COM(95)379, July 1995. The authors make recommendations on levels of service: there is concern that availability of terminal equipment needed by disabled users will be left to the operation of market forces. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971118233 B |
| Classmark | UJ: BN: Q3: WFC |
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