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Digital crossroads : American telecommunications policy in the internet age /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nuechterlein, Jonathan E.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Weiser, Philip J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Telecommunication policy > United States.
Telecommunication > Deregulation > United States.
Internet.
United States. > Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.