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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Regulation of Telecommunication

Yasuo Hasebe

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
July 2023

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Data protection — Freedom of expression — Freedom of the press — Right to access to information — Telecommunication

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Telecommunication is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as ‘any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds, or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems’ (Annex to the ITU Constitution of 1992, 1012; International Telecommunication Regulation (ITR) of 1988, Art. 2.1). In constitutional law, telecommunication has been analysed from the aspects of freedom of expression and secrecy of communication, primarily in the fields of broadcasting, the Internet, and...
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