ABSTRACT
A growing internationalization in the provision and use of telecommunication and data services is taking place as certain countries and business and user interests press strenuously for more open access to foreign networks and markets. This chapter focuses on a sampling of the kinds of telecommunication and data services activities which do or might take place and how data services activities. It highlights the different perspectives of trade-policy and telecommunication-policy officials who must play a major role in arriving at any major agreement The chapter reviews the literature on how telecommunication and data services can be conceptualized in terms of services trade. It provides the matter of what constitutes "trade" in the telecommunication and data services realm. The chapter analyzes a general way the boundary-line issues involving on trade in telecommunication and data services and other concepts such as foreign investment, transborder data flows, domestic and international regulation and the process of development.
