Digital Crossroads American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age

Name: Digital Crossroads American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age
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ISBN: 9780262140911

ISBN-10: 0262140918

ISBN-13: 9780262140911

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Philip J. Weiser

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Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a clear, balanced, and accessible analysis of competition policy issues in the telecommunications industry. After giving a big picture overview of the field, they present sharply reasoned analyses of the major technological, economic, and legal developments confronting communications policymakers in the twenty-first century. Since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, when Congress…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/4/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 696
Size: 6.34" wide x 8.98" long x 1.71" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Philip J. Weiser is Dean of the Law School, Thompson Professor of Law and Telecommunications,and Founder and Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, andEntrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Boulder. From 2009 to 2010, he was Deputy AssistantAttorney General, and from 2010 to 2011, he was a Senior Adviser on Technology and Innovation at theNational Economic Council in the White House under President Obama.



Acknowledgements


Preface



The Big Picture



Introduction to Wireline Telecommunications



Wireline Competition Under the 1996 Act



A Primer on Internet Technology



Monopoly Leveraging Concerns and the Internet



VoIP 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



The Pricing of Network Elements



Enforcement Mechanisms Under the 1996 Act


Statutory Addendum


List of Notable Commentaries


Table of Authorities


Notes


Index


Glossary of Acronyms