Author: Herbert S. DordickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
Author: Herbert S. DordickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Digital Economy
Author: Harbhajan S. KehalPublisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 9781591403630
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Annotation Digital Economy provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the digital economy. This set of eighteen essays covers the effects of digital economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of the Internet.
New Directions in Research on E-commerce
Author: Charles William SteinfieldPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532398
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This work discusses the huge impact of electronic networks, particularly the Internet, and how they will remain an integral force in business. It emphasizes the importance of research and understanding in the area of electronic commerce.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996: The “Costs” of Managed Competition
Author: Dale E. LehmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461543150
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the interLATA long-distance market. After close to 5 years, only one RBOC has been granted permission (controversially) to enter the interLATA market, and local competition has yet to provide most consumers with meaningful choices. In addition, the wave of mergers across the industry has raised the specter of putting the former Bell System back together again. Policymakers now openly question whether the Act can deliver what it promised. Three principal themes are developed in this book. First, there has been a coordination failure between Congress and the FCC in translating the principles embodied in the Act into practice. The authors provide evidence for this by analyzing stock market reactions to legislative and regulatory actions. This coordination failure was largely predictable, given the ambiguity in the Act, as well as conflicting jurisdictions between the FCC and the states. Second, the Act calls for wholesale prices to be `based on cost.' Regulators adopted a costing standard (TELRIC) that provides a means to subsidize competitive entry in local telephone service markets. The ready adoption of the TELRIC standard by regulators is shown to be tied to the third theme: price cap regulation provides regulators with `insurance' against the adverse effects of competition in local telephone markets. Statistical analysis reveals that regulators in price cap states set uniformly lower unbundled network element prices (lower barriers to entry) in comparison with regulators in rate-of-return and earnings sharing states. The result is a triumph of regulatory processes over market processes - the antithesis of the purpose of the Act.
Interconnecting the Network of Networks
Author: Eli M. NoamPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262263931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This book describes the transformation of telecommunications from national network monopolies to a new system, the "network of networks," and the glue that holds it together, interconnection. By their very nature, monopoly-owned networks provided a small number of standardized, nationwide services. Over the past two decades, however, new forces in the world economy began to unravel this traditional system. The driving force behind the change was the shift toward an information-based economy. Especially for large organizations, the price, control, security, and reliability of telecommunications became variables requiring organized attention. Thus, monopoly began to give way to the "network of networks," the foundation of today's telecommunications and Internet infrastructure. Taking a broad, multidisciplinary perspective Eli Noam discusses the importance and history of interconnection policy, as well as recent policy reforms both within the United States and around the globe. Other important topics he discusses include interconnection prices, the unbundling of interconnection, and the technology of interconnection. He concludes with an examination of social and policy issues, including the free flow of content, universal service and privacy protection, and the future of telecommunications.
Telenotes
Author: Information Economics and Policy
Author: International Telecommunications SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Documentation Abstracts
Author: The Rand Paper Series
Author: Impact and Issues in New Media
Author: Paul S. N. LeePublisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book explores the various potentials of new media to contribute to an intelligent society, where people can respond successfully to a new situation, as compared with the information society where information production, distribution and consumption are major activities. It differs from previous collections in that it explores the possibilities of new media from both a pragmatic and theoretical perspective. It does not only survey the emerging forms of e-newspapers, e-commerce, e-shopping, webcasting, telecommuting, and internet health information systems, but audience uses of them. This book is intended to set the parameters for future studies in new media.