Böcker i LEA Telecommunications Series-serien

Participants at this conference included a community of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners interested in telecom policy. The text reflects the contemporary state of telecommunication policy and offers guidelines for future research.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The current state of research in telecommunications policy, covering competition, regulation, and integration of media carriers. For scholars, policy makers, and businesspeople involved with future direction and policy decisions in telecommunications

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text seeks to provide a multidisciplinary perspective in evaluating a universal service policy and recommending policy changes to accommodate a more competitive telecommunications environment. It is based on the "Universal Service in Context" conference held in December 1996.

This text explores the use of online media by reporters in the United States and examines the impact that usage may have on how journalism is framed in the cultural sphere, as well as how it is conducted in the professional one.

This text on the telecommunications industry analyzes local competition and interconnection, international competition, universal service issues, the Internet and emerging new methods of communication, and the first amendment problems created by telecommunication technology.

This volume addresses telecommunications policy in developing countries, ranging from low-income countries with overburdened, rural roads in south Asia and Africa, to digitalized fibre-optic super highways in middle-income countries such as Singapore.

Written during the era of the construction of the information superhighway, this book presents an analysis of the pros and cons of continuing state regulation of telecommunications, using a positive political economy perspective to analyze enduring state-federal conflicts.

This text explores the use of online media by reporters in the United States and examines the impact that usage may have on how journalism is framed in the cultural sphere, as well as how it is conducted in the professional one.

This volume addresses telecommunications policy in developing countries, ranging from low-income countries with overburdened, rural roads in south Asia and Africa, to digitalized fibre-optic super highways in middle-income countries such as Singapore.

Examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on both the macro level - societal, socio-economic, and governmental; and sector level - education, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship. This volume is useful for those involved in telecommunications law and policy, media economics, and international communication.

Examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in the US.

This is a collection of papers from the 1998 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Topics include: price squeezing through bundled pricing; trademarks and domain names; regulating anti-competitive behaviour in the Internet market; IP-based local access network; and universal service.

What will a true information highway do to local communities, government, and business entities? This volume suggests that serving the everyday citizen should be the main objectives of any national initiatives in this area.

Participants at this conference included a community of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners interested in telecom policy. The text reflects the contemporary state of telecommunication policy and offers guidelines for future research.

Tackles the economic and public policy issues raised by changes in the information infrastructure for industry executives, scholars and policymakers. The book analyzes the quality of current telecommunications networks and the impact of re-regulation on cable television quality.

This text addresses Internet and multimedia issues from an international perspective by outlining issues of international sovereignty and the potential impact of national interests on global technology policy. It supplies a survey that points out accomplishments, issues and problems.

Examines satellite communications - the technology and the services they provide and the socio-political, security, economic, policy, news, entertainment, and cultural impact. The book addresses what satellites have been, how they are designed and built, how they will evolve in the future, what they mean today, and what they will mean tomorrow.

This text describes the research and insights presented at the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. It covers such topics as: interconnection and competition; Internet growth and commerce; Internet regulation and control; and the political economy of telecommunications regulation.

Tracing the history of the telecommunications highway, this text explains the technological uncertainties and many of its futuristic services. It examines the impact of financial, policy, business, and consumer issues that effect and undermine the superhighway.

This text seeks to provide a multidisciplinary perspective in evaluating a universal service policy and recommending policy changes to accommodate a more competitive telecommunications environment. It is based on the "Universal Service in Context" conference held in December 1996.