Communications policy in transition :: the Internet and beyond /

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 This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet.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,...

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Körperschaft: Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
Weitere Verfasser: Compaine, Benjamin M., Greenstein, Shane M.
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Schriftenreihe:Telecommunications policy research.
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Zusammenfassung: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 This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet.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
Beschreibung:Papers from the 28th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference held in Alexandria, Va. in the Fall of 2000.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxii, 425 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262270717
0262270714
0585446490
9780585446493
0262293390
9780262293396

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