TELECOMMUNICATIONS
IN FRANCE

. Documents, laws, reports, studies - online or to download

- Law setting out the regulatory framework for telecommunications in France-27 July 1996. Official translation.

Application decrees of the law on telecommunications regulations:
- decree n° 97-683 of 30 May 1997 relative to the rights of passage on the public road domain and the constraints - 1 June , 1997
- decree relative to fees due by those allocated radio frequencies - 22 May 1997
- decree relative to financing the universal service - 13 May 1997
- decree relative to interconnection - 3 March 1997

- Annual report of the DGPT for 1995 (in fact it covers the whole 1995 year and 1996 until the end of June)

-All the licences allocated from 1987 to 1997 in the telecommunications sector

-"The future stakes for France Telecom", a report by Michel Delebarre submitted to the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, and to the Secretary of State for Industry - September 1997

-The law relative to state-owned France Telecom (26 July 1996) + the list of application decrees

- List of decisions and verdicts of the Authority for the Regulation of Telecommunications (ART)

Study on quality of service of GSM networks (November 1996)

"Interconnection" - Public consultation until 30 November 1996

"The local radio loop" - Public consultation until 13 December 1996

The expectations of consumers with regards to quality of service of telecommunications - IFOP Study - February 1996

1995 Activity Report of the DGPT (covers the period from 01/01/95 to 15/06/96)

1994 Activity Report of the DGPT (published June 1995)

Guide of evaluation procedures for the compliance of telecommunications terminal equipment (August 1997) An invaluable document for manufacturers and importers of telecommunications equipment

"New operational rules for telecommunications", an orientation document from the Government presented for public scrutiny between 15 October and 15 December 1995.

"New rules for telecommunications" guiding document produced by the government and the subject of public consultation between 15 October and 15 December 1995.

Press Statements

Mobile Communications(statistics updated each month).

Studies and Guides you can order

Directory of key technologies; 136 technologies reviewed in depth (state of progress, market factors, potential for evolution…). With 100 pages on information and communication technology - compression algorithms, from flat screens to flash memory and digital images…a volume which was commissioned from the Agency for the diffusion of technological information (ADIT) by the Secretary of State for Industry

"The European Electronics Industry: heterogeneous factors and uncertainties" (Bernard Paulre - September 1997). A large chapter dedicated to the telecommunications equipment industry in Europe

"Research and Development, key to a new elan for telecommunications in France", report and propositions (Didier Lombard, Gilles Kahn - November 1996)

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