
Communications Policy in Transition
The Internet and Beyond
MIT Press
Published on 26. October 2001
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-262-03292-6 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of research reports on policy issues involving telecommunications, particularly the Internet.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 This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet.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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
20 illus.; 20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
744 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-03292-6 (9780262032926)
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Persons
Shane Greenstein is Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.