Competition, Regulation, and Convergence (eBook, ePUB)

Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research
Redaktion: Gillett, Sharon E.; Vogelsang, Ingo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The telecommunications industry has experienced dynamic changes over the past several years, and those exciting events and developments are reflected in the chapters of this volume. The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) holds an unrivaled place at the center of national public policy discourse on issues in communications and information. TPRC is one of the few places where multidisciplinary discussions take place as the norm. The papers collected here represent the current state of research in telecommunication policy, and are organized around four topics: competition, regulation, universal service, and convergence.

The contentious competition issues include bundling as a strategy in software competition, combination bidding in spectrum auctions, and anticompetitive behavior in the Internet. Regulation takes up telephone number portability, decentralized regulatory decision making versus central regulatory authority, data protection, restrictions to the flow of information over the Internet, and failed Global Information Infrastructure initiatives. Universal service addresses the persistent gap in telecommunications from a socioeconomic perspective, the availability of competitive Internet access service and cost modeling. The convergence section concentrates on the costs of Internet telephony versus circuit switched telephony, the intertwined evolution of new services, new technologies, and new consumer equipment, and the politically charged question of asymmetric regulation of Internet telephony and conventional telephone service.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135661861
• Artikelnr.: 41501200

Autorenporträt

Sharon E. Gillett, Ingo Vogelsang

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: B.M. Compaine
J.R. Schement
Preface. I. Vogelsang
S.E. Gillett
Introduction. Part I:Competition.D.J. Aron
S.S. Wildman
Effecting a Price Squeeze Through Bundled Pricing. P. Milgrom
Combination Bidding in Spectrum Auctions. A. Briceño
Regulating Anticompetitive Behavior in the Internet Market: An Applied Imputation Model for Peru. M. Mueller
Trademarks and Domain Names: Property Rights and Institutional Evolution in Cyberspace. Part II:Regulation.P. Sringagesh
B.M. Mitchell
An Economic Analysis of Telephone Number Portability. T.J. Brennan
Promoting Telephone Competition--A Simpler Way. W. Lehr
T. Kiessling
Telecommunication Regulation in the United States and Europe: The Case for Centralized Authority. V. Mayer-Schönberger
Operator
Please Give Me Information: The European Union Directive on Data Protection in Telecommunications. L. Lessig
P. Resnick
The Architectures of Mandated Access Controls. H.E. Hudson
Beyond Infrastructure: A Critical Assessment of GII Initiatives. Part III:Universal Service.J.R. Schement
S.C. Forbes
The Persistent Gap in Telecommunications: Toward Hypothesis and Answers. T.A. Downes
S.M. Greenstein
Do Commercial ISPs Provide Universal Access? D. Gabel
S.K. Kennedy
Proxy Models and the Funding of Universal Service. Part IV:Convergence.M.B.H. Weiss
J. Hwang
Internet Telephony or Circuit Switched Telephony: Which Is Cheaper? D. Fryxell
M. Sirbu
K. Wanichkorn
An IP-Based Local Access Network: Economic and Public Policy Analysis. D.D. Clark
Implications of Local Loop Technology for Future Industry Structure. J. Weinberg
The Internet and "Telecommunications Services
" Access Charges
Universal Service Mechanisms
and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System.