Digital crossroads : American telecommunications policy in the Internet age /
Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser.
- First MIT Press paperback edition
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007.
- xxxi, 670 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The big picture -- Introduction to wireless telecommunications -- Wireless competition under the 1996 act -- A primer on Internet technology -- Monopoly leveraging concerns and the Internet -- VolP and proposals for "horizontal" regulation -- The spectrum -- Mobile wireless services -- Intercarrier compensation -- Universal service in the age of competition -- Competition in the delivery of television programming -- Telecommunications standards, technological transitions, and digital television -- The future of telecommunications policy.
"Digital Crossroads focuses on the regulatory dimensions of competition in wireline and wireless telephone service; competition among rival platforms for broadband Internet service and video distribution; and the Internet's transformation of every aspect of the telecommunications industry, particularly through the emergence of "voice over Internet protocol" (VoIP). The authors explain not just the complicated legal issues governing the industry but also the rapidly changing technological and economic context in which these issues arise."--Jacket.
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United States. Telecommunications Act of 1996. Estados Unidos. Ley de Telecomunicaciones de 1996
Telecommunication policy--United States. Política de telecomunicaciones --Estados Unidos Telecommunication--Deregulation--United States. Telecomunicaciones --Desreglamentación --Estados Unidos Internet Telecomunicaciones --Estados Unidos