| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
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Telecommunications |
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Telecommunications (Mahwah, N.J.)
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| Contents |
Introduction / Gerald W. Brock -- Pricing strategies and regulatory effects in the U.S. cellular telecommunications duopolies / L. Keta Ruiz -- Critical mass and network evolution in telecommunications / Nicholas Economides & Charles Himmelberg -- Competition in local telecommunications: implications of unbundling for antitrust policy / Robert G. Harris, Gregory L. Rosston & David J. Teece -- Regulation of pricing of interconnection services / Bridger Mitchell [and others] -- Local exchange competition: alternative models in Maryland / Richard L. Comerman & Geoffrey J. Waldau -- The U.S. stake in competitive global telecommunications / John Haring, Jeffrey H. Rohlfs & Harry M. Shooshan III -- Changing face of transatlantic telecommunications / Richard A. Cawley -- Anatomy and regulatory repercussions of global telecommunications strategies / Johannes M. Bauer -- Universal service: prosaic motives and great ideals / Harmeet Sawhney -- Universal service as an appropriability problem: a new framework for analysis / Milton Mueller -- Access to telecommunications in the developing world: ten years after the Maitland Report / Heather E. Hudson -- Internet cost structures and interconnection agreements / Padmanaghan Srinagesh -- Realizing the information future: technology, economics, and the Open Data Network / Marjory S. Blumenthal -- Roles for electronic brokers / Paul Resnick, Richard Zeckhauser & Chris Avery -- Game theory and the First Amendment: strategic considerations and freedom of the press / Timothy J. Brennan -- Lost on the infobahn without a map: the need for a coherent First Amendment approach / Robert Corn-Revere |
| Summary |
Providing an authoritative perspective on the best current research regarding telecommunication policy, this book is based on the 22nd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. The papers focus on the critical policy issues created by increasing competition in the industry. The book contains a careful analysis of local competition and interconnection, international competition, universal service issues, the Internet and emerging new methods of communication, and the first amendment problems created by changing telecommunication technology. It brings together -- in a conve |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Telecommunication policy -- United States -- Congresses
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Telecommunication policy -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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Telecommunication policy
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Telecomunicacoes.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brock, Gerald W
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Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (22nd : 1994)
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| ISBN |
9781136687273 |
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1136687270 |
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