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Book The Geodesic Network II

Download or read book The Geodesic Network II written by Peter William Huber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Geodesic Network

Download or read book The Geodesic Network written by Peter William Huber and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Geodesic Network

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter W. Huber
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Geodesic Network written by Peter W. Huber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Changing Nature of Telecommunications Information Infrastructure

Download or read book The Changing Nature of Telecommunications Information Infrastructure written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-03-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications.

Book Talk is Cheap

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert W. Crandall
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 0815719701
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Talk is Cheap written by Robert W. Crandall and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone companies with a wide array of new market opportunities. Unfortunately, their status as regulated carriers makes it difficult to exploit these new opportunities and to fend off competitive assaults on their traditional telephone business. As long as they are regulated, they can be accused of using their monopoly services to cross-subsidize new competitive ventures. But partial deregulation and open entry would be a catastrophe for them unless they were allowed to revise their rate structure. There is a widespread misconception that the U.S. telecommunications industry has been "deregulated" and that Canadian authorities are following the U.S. lead. In fact, most services remain regulated, even though some markets, such as long-distance services, equipment sales and rentals, and local services, have been opened up. This book reviews the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyze the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets with particular emphasis on the impacts of regulatory reforms and competition on long-distance rates. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly on the road to the information superhighway. The authors contend that for decades misguided regulation of the telephone sector in both Canada and the U.S. denied consumers the benefits of competition, distorted local and long-distance telephone rates, and blocked en

Book The New Information Industry

Download or read book The New Information Industry written by Richard Klingler and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid developments in technology are reshaping how citizens receive and use information electronically. At the same time, government regulation limits the services that may be offered by the industries that transmit information, and will determine how interactive and other advanced video services are able to develop. In this book, Richard Klingler traces the evolution of regulatory regimes that constrain the broadcasting, telephone, and cable television industries, as well as emerging information services. He also examines new information delivery systems and the integration of electronic carriage with provision of content and information services, including services that resemble printed products. Klingler describes two basic challenges to current regulation of these industries. First, established regulatory regimes often harm competition and the development of services in industries that are increasingly interrelated and rapidly changing. He outlines how recent developments contradict basic assumptions underlying the structure of current regulation and how regulation might better respond to those developments. Second, the Constitution limits regulation of these industries as they increasingly engage in activities protected by the First Amendment. Klingler shows how the First Amendment, as recently elaborated, applies to electronic transmission of information and likely precludes certain forms of regulation, including established regulation of the content of communications. The book also examines how regulation designed to limit market power in these industries can be reconciled with the First Amendment.

Book Trust

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis Fukuyama
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1996-06-18
  • ISBN : 1439107475
  • Pages : 740 pages

Download or read book Trust written by Francis Fukuyama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-06-18 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The End of History and the Last of Men comes a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order, arguing that a nation's social unity depends on its economic strength—and America is at risk for losing both. In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of twenty-first century capitalism. In Trust, he explains the social principles of economic life and tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance. Challenging orthodoxies of both the left and right, Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the underlying principles that foster social and economic prosperity. Insisting that we cannot divorce economic life from cultural life, he contends that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy. A brilliant study of the interconnectedness of economic life with cultural life, Trust is also an essential antidote to the increasing drift of American culture into extreme forms of individualism, which, if unchecked, will have dire consequences for the nation's economic health.

Book Anytime  Anywhere

Download or read book Anytime Anywhere written by Louis Galambos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text tells the story of the explosion in wireless communications, through the eyes of Sam Ginn.

Book Media Ownership and Concentration in America

Download or read book Media Ownership and Concentration in America written by Eli M. Noam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world. Critics have long feared waves of mergers creating a handful of large media firms that would hold sway over public opinion and endanger democracy and innovation. But others believe with equal fervor that the Internet and deregulation have opened the media landscape significantly. How concentrated has the American information sector really become? What are the facts about American media ownership? In this contentious environment, Eli Noam provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of media concentration with a methodical, scientific approach. He assembles a wealth of data from the last 25 years about mass media such as radio, television, film, music, and print publishing, as well as the Internet, telecommunications, and media-related information technology. After examining 100 separate media and network industries in detail, Noam provides a powerful summary and analysis of concentration trends across industries and major media sectors. He also looks at local media power, vertical concentration, and the changing nature of media ownership through financial institutions and private equity. The results reveal a reality much more complex than the one painted by advocates on either side of the debate. They show a dynamic system that fluctuates around long-term concentration trends driven by changing economics and technology. Media Ownership and Concentration in America will be essential reading and a trove of information for scholars and students in media, telecommunications, IT, economics, and the history of business, as well as media industry professionals, business researchers, and policy makers around the world. Critics and defenders of media trends alike will find much that confirms and refutes their world view. But the next round of their debate will be shaped by the facts presented in this book.

Book Competition in the Telecommunications Industry

Download or read book Competition in the Telecommunications Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract

Download or read book Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract written by J. Gregory Sidak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-28 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 book addresses deregulatory policies termed 'deregulatory takings' that threaten private property in network industries without compensation.

Book Who Owns the World s Media

Download or read book Who Owns the World s Media written by Eli M. Noam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.

Book Toward Competition in Cable Television

Download or read book Toward Competition in Cable Television written by Leland L. Johnson and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the major sources of competition to the cable television industry, such as telephone companies, direct broadcast satellite services, and traditional broadcasting stations.

Book Vehicular Social Networks

Download or read book Vehicular Social Networks written by Anna Maria Vegni and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive guide to vehicular social networks. The book focuses on a new class of mobile ad hoc networks that exploits social aspects applied to vehicular environments. Selected topics are related to social networking techniques, social-based routing techniques applied to vehicular networks, data dissemination in VSNs, architectures for VSNs, and novel trends and challenges in VSNs. It provides significant technical and practical insights in different aspects from a basic background on social networking, the inter-related technologies and applications to vehicular ad-hoc networks, the technical challenges, implementation and future trends.

Book Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry

Download or read book Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry written by David E. Sappington and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies new advances in economic theory regarding the asymmetry of information between firms and their regulators to the design of improved telecommunications regulation.

Book Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Newman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-03-25
  • ISBN : 0199206651
  • Pages : 789 pages

Download or read book Networks written by Mark Newman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together advances in mathematics, physics, computer science, biology and social network analysis to present a comprehensive picture of the scientific study of networks. The book includes discussion of computer networks, social networks, biological networks, and others, and an introduction to the mathematics of network theory.

Book The Political Economy of International Trade Law

Download or read book The Political Economy of International Trade Law written by Daniel L. M. Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International experts from law, economics and political science provide in-depth analysis of international trade issues. Attorneys, economists and political scientists adopt a common viewpoint, entitled 'transcending the ostensible'. This approach directs particular attention to the possibility that WTO legal institutions, like other international legal institutions, will function in unexpected ways due to the political and economic conditions of the international environment in which they have been created, and in which they operate. A range of trade problems are considered here. Topics include the constitutional dimensions of international trade law, adding subjects and restructuring existing subjects to international trade law, the legal relations between developed and developing countries, and the operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure. This will be an essential volume for professionals and academics involved with international trade policy.