Digital TV offers many advantages over analog TV, but the transition process is complex and costly. This book explains how the process is unfolding in the U.S. and Britain and explores the changes in the legal framework and the industry structure associated with it. It is a unique study about the technological, political, and social factors shaping the emergence of the Information Society in the U.S. and Europe.

Digital TV offers many advantages over analog TV, but the transition process is complex and costly. This book explains how the process is unfolding in the U.S. and Britain and explores the changes in the legal framework and the industry structure associated with it. It is a unique study about the technological, political, and social factors shaping the emergence of the Information Society in the U.S. and Europe.

This book represents the first publication of the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (REDIS-DIRSI), a regional network of leading researchers concerned with the creation and dissemination of knowledge that supports effective participation in the Information Society by the poor and marginalized communities of Latin America and the Caribbean.

It reflects a diverse set of studies undertaken by DIRSI researchers under the common theme of pro-poor, pro-market ICT policies. This supports next-generation reforms that build on the achievements of market liberalization efforts...

PCPR (Proceedings of the CPRLatam Conference) is published annually by the Latin America Communication Policy Research Network. CPRLatam is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, education and consulting purposes. The main goal of the organization is to provide training and consulting services for scholars, private sector, and government officers on ICT policy, and to hold an annual conference for the exchange of non-partisan research, education, and information aiming to increase academic, private and government officers and the public awareness regarding ICT policy issues. This...