Nuechterlein, Jonathan E.

Digital crossroads : American telecommunications policy in the internet age / Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005. - xvii, 670 p. : ill. ; 24 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.

0262140918 (alk. paper) 9780262140911 (alk. paper)

2004061063

GBA519402 bnb

013125599 Uk


United States. Telecommunications Act of 1996.


Telecommunication policy--United States.
Telecommunication--Deregulation--United States.
Internet.
Internet.
Internet.

HE 7781 / .N84 2005