Until the 1980s, it was presumed that technical change in most communications services could easily be monitored from centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet. With the Internet, the long-forecast convergence of voice, video, and text bits became a reality. Legislation, capped by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, created new quasi-standards such as "fair" and "reasonable" for the FCC and courts to apply, leading to nonstop litigation and occasional gridlock.This book addresses some of the many telecommunications areas on which public policy makers, corporate strategists, and social activists must reach agreement. Topics include the regulation of access, Internet architecture in a commercial era, communications infrastructure development, the Digital Divide, and information policy issues such as intellectual property and the retransmission of TV programming via the Internet.
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Shane Greenstein is Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
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video copyright owners, enhanced service operations, particular wire center, customer proprietary network information, collocation agreement, anticompetitive practices have, implementing open access, wire center area, satellite entrepreneurs, noninfringing uses, noninfringing purposes, search engine market, peering policies, peering policy, telephone exchange service, information services operations, distributed network applications, advanced telecommunications capability, unbundling rules, compulsory license, enhanced service providers, public access centers, video providers, wire centers, open network architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Federal Communications Commission, Telecommunications Act, Bell Atlantic, New York, Copyright Office, World Wide Web, Joint Petition, North America, America Online, Department of Commerce, Federal Trade Commission, San Francisco, Media Metrix, Pacific Bell, Working Group, Copyrighted Webcast Programming, National Science Foundation, Oversight Hearing, Computer Inquiries, Computer Inquiry, Defining the Digital Divide, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Supreme Court, Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability New!
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video copyright owners, enhanced service operations, particular wire center, customer proprietary network information, collocation agreement, anticompetitive practices have, implementing open access, wire center area, satellite entrepreneurs, noninfringing uses, noninfringing purposes, search engine market, peering policies, peering policy, telephone exchange service, information services operations, distributed network applications, advanced telecommunications capability, unbundling rules, compulsory license, enhanced service providers, public access centers, video providers, wire centers, open network architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Federal Communications Commission, Telecommunications Act, Bell Atlantic, New York, Copyright Office, World Wide Web, Joint Petition, North America, America Online, Department of Commerce, Federal Trade Commission, San Francisco, Media Metrix, Pacific Bell, Working Group, Copyrighted Webcast Programming, National Science Foundation, Oversight Hearing, Computer Inquiries, Computer Inquiry, Defining the Digital Divide, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Supreme Court, Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability New!
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- The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference) by Ingo Vogelsang in Front Matter, page 56, and page 261
- Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places by Steve Graham on page 240, and page 292
- Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro on page 86, and page 186
- Annual Report 2002 by National Adult Literacy Agency on page 213, and page 215
- The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway by W. Russell Neuman in Front Matter
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- The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement (Digital Futures) by Michael Strangelove in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rethinking Rights and Regulations: Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference) by Lorrie Faith Cranor in Front Matter
- Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference) by Lorrie Faith Cranor in Front Matter
- Telecommunications Reform in India by Rafiq Dossani on page 169
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