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A selection of papers from the 32nd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference |
Edited by:
Douglas C. Sicker
Department of Computer Science and the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Robert Cannon
Federal Communications Commission, Cybertelecom, Washington, DC, USA
Year: October, 2004
Page Count: 1 page
$30.00*
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A selection of papers from the 31st Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference |
Edited by:
Robert Canon
Federal Communications Commission, Cybertelecom, Washington, DC, USA
Anne Hoag
The Pennsylvania State University, School of Communications, 105C Carnegie, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Year: September, 2003
Page Count: 2 pages
$30.00*
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Intitutional Responses to New Communications Technologies |
Edited by:
Lorrie Faith Cranor
Principal Technical Staff Member in the Secure
Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research
Steven S. Wildman
James H. Quello Professor of Telecommunication
Studies and Director James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at
Michigan State University
The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by
the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this
post-boom, post-bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference
on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)--traditionally a
showcase for the best academic research on this topic--their work combines hard
data and deep analysis to explore the dynamic interplay between technological
development and society.
The chapters in the first section consider the
ways society conceptualizes new information technologies and their implications
for law and policy, examining the common metaphor of "cyberspace as place,"
alternative definitions of the Internet, the concept of a namespace, and
measures of diffusion. The chapters in the second section discuss how
technological change may force the rethinking of legal rights; topics considered
include spectrum rights, intellectual property, copyright and "paracopyright,"
and the abridgement of constitutional rights by commercial rights in ISP rules.
Chapters in the third and final section examine the constant adjustment and
reinterpretation of regulations in response to technological change,
considering, among other subjects, liability regimes for common carriers and the
1996 detariffing rule, privacy and enhanced 911, and the residual effect of
state ownership on privatized telecommunication carriers. The policy
implications of Rethinking Rights and Regulations are clear: major institutional
changes may be the necessary response to major advances in telecommunications
technology.
Year: October, 2002
Page Count: 6 x 9, 456 pages, 13 illustrations
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-262-03314-3
$50.00/£32.95*
*price subject to change without notice.
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Promises, Problems, Prospects |
Edited by:
Lorrie Faith Cranor
Principal Technical Staff Member in the Secure
Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research
Shane Greenstein
Elinor and Wendall Hobbs
Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of
Management, Northwestern University
New technologies, although developed with
optimism, often fall short of their predicted potential and create new
problems. Communications technologies are no different. Their utopian
proponents claim that universal access to advanced communications
technologies can help to feed the hungry, cure the sick, educate the
illiterate, improve the global standard of living, and ultimately bring
about world peace. The sobering reality is that while communications
technologies have a role to play in making the world a better place, the
impact of any specific technological advance is likely to be modest.
The limitations of new technologies are often not inherent in the
technologies themselves but the result of regulatory or economic
constraints. While the capability may exist to deliver any information
anywhere in the world, many people lack the money to pay for it, the
equipment to access it, the skills to use it, or even the knowledge that
it might be useful to them. This book examines the complex ways in which
communication technologies and policies affect the people whose lives
they are intended to improve. The areas of discussion include Internet
regulation, electronic voting and petitioning, monopoly and competition
in communications markets, the future of wireless communications, and
the concept of universal service.
Year: October, 2002
Page Count: 6 x 9, 438 pages, 23 illustrations
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-262-03300-3
$52.00/£33.95*
*price subject to change without notice.
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The Internet and Beyond |
Edited by:
Benjamin M. Compaine
Senior Research Affiliate at the Internet and
Telecoms Convergence Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Shane Greenstein
Elinor and Wendall Hobbs
Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of
Management, Northwestern University
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.
Year: November, 2001
Page Count: 6 x 9, 440 pages
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-262-03292-9
$58.00/£37.95*
*price subject to change without notice.
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Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in
Communications Policy |
Edited by:
Ingo Vogelsang
Professor of Economics at Boston University
Benjamin M. Compaine
Research Affiliate at the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University
At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest
period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history.
According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for
this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in
particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social
structures.
These research studies explore some of the telecommunications
policy ramifications of this upheaval. The first section addresses the
complexities of adapting the First Amendment to the Internet, the
debate over the taxation of e-commerce, and Internet users' attitudes
toward online privacy. The second section looks at how the Internet
has changed, or will change, traditional models used by economists,
sociologists, and others to explain how the world works. The third
section discusses the need for new economic models to deal with the
rapidly changing competitive landscape. Finally, the fourth section
examines economic and policy aspects of universal service.
Year: October, 2000
Page Count: 456 pages, 27 illustrations
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-262-22063-6
$55.00/£35.95*
*price subject to change without notice.
Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research
Edited by
Sharon Eisner Gillett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ingo Vogelsang
Boston University
The telecommunications industry has experienced dynamic changes over the past several
years, and those exciting events and developments are reflected in the chapters of this
volume. The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) holds an unrivaled place
at the center of national public policy discourse on issues in communications and
information. TPRC is one of the few places where multidisciplinary discussions take place
as the norm. The papers collected here represent the current state of research in
telecommunication policy, and are organized around four topics: competition, regulation,
universal service, and convergence. The contentious competition issues include bundling as
a strategy in software competition, combination bidding in spectrum auctions, and
anti-competitive behavior in the Internet. Regulation takes up telephone number
portability, decentralized regulatory decision making versus central regulatory authority,
data protection, restrictions to the flow of information over the Internet, and failed
Global Information Infrastructure initiatives. Universal service addresses the persistent
gap in telecommunications from a socio-economic perspective, the availability of
competitive Internet access service and cost modeling. The convergence section
concentrates on the costs of Internet telephony versus circuit switched telephony, the
intertwined evolution of new services, new technologies, and new consumer equipment, and
the politically charged question of asymmetric regulation of Internet telephony and
conventional telephone service.
Reviews:
"...provides a good cross-section of cutting-edge policy research in
the U.S."
-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Audience:
Scholars, policymakers, and business people involved with future direction and
policy decisions in telecommunications will find this book invaluable.
Contents:
B.M. Compaine, J.R. Schement, Preface. I. Vogelsang,
S.E. Gillett, Introduction. Part I: Competition.
D.J. Aron, S.S. Wildman, Effecting a Price Squeeze Through Bundled
Pricing. P. Milgrom, Combination Bidding in Spectrum Auctions.
A. Briceño, Regulating Anticompetitive Behavior in the Internet
Market: An Applied Imputation Model for Peru. M. Mueller,
Trademarks and Domain Names: Property Rights and Institutional Evolution
in Cyberspace. Part II: Regulation. P. Sringagesh, B.M.
Mitchell, An Economic Analysis of Telephone Number Portability.
T.J. Brennan, Promoting Telephone Competition--A Simpler Way. W.
Lehr, T. Kiessling, Telecommunication Regulation in the United
States and Europe: The Case for Centralized Authority. V. Mayer-Schönberger,
Operator, Please Give Me Information: The European Union Directive on
Data Protection in Telecommunications. L. Lessig, P. Resnick, The
Architectures of Mandated Access Controls. H.E. Hudson, Beyond
Infrastructure: A Critical Assessment of GII Initiatives. Part III:
Universal Service. J.R. Schement, S.C. Forbes, The
Persistent Gap in Telecommunications: Toward Hypothesis and Answers.
T.A. Downes, S.M. Greenstein, Do Commercial ISPs Provide Universal
Access? D. Gabel, S.K. Kennedy, Proxy Models and the Funding of
Universal Service. Part IV: Convergence. M.B.H. Weiss,
J. Hwang, Internet Telephony or Circuit Switched Telephony: Which Is
Cheaper? D. Fryxell, M. Sirbu, K. Wanichkorn, An IP-Based Local
Access Network: Economic and Public Policy Analysis. D.D. Clark,
Implications of Local Loop Technology for Future Industry Structure.
J. Weinberg, The Internet and "Telecommunications Services," Access
Charges, Universal Service Mechanisms, and Other Flotsam of the
Regulatory System
Year: 1998
Page Count: 320 pages
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-8058-3484-2
Selected Papers from the 1997 Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference
edited by
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
University of Michigan
David Waterman
Indiana University
The dynamic changes occurring in the telecommunications industry
can be seen nearly every day in the news, from the announcements of mergers and
acquisitions among telephony service providers to the ongoing discussions of V-chip
application in filtering content on television and the Internet. As the industry continues
to respond to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and other policy initiatives and changes,
such evolution is certain to continue.
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications
Policy Research Conference (TPRC), this volume reflects both the dynamic nature and the
diversity of the telecommunications industry. Included here are selected papers from the
1997 TPRC, reflecting the ongoing pace of change in technological, economic, and policy
issues. Organized around the topics of telephony, media, and the Internet, these papers
represent many of the key issues for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners. With
topics ranging from guidelines for children's educational television to local telephone
service regulation to intellectual property rights on the Internet, the coverage in this
volume represents the broad-ranging scope of the telecommunications industry and
establishes a new benchmark for further telecommunications policy research and analysis.
Reviews:
"...the level of discourse and analysis is as high as ever--this is
some of the best work done in the United States."
-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Contents:
J.K. MacKie-Mason, Preface. J.K. MacKie-Mason, D.
Waterman, Introduction. Part I: Historical. B.M.
Owen, A Novel Conference: The Origins of TPRC. Part II:
Telephony. F. Gasmi, J-J. Laffont, W.W. Sharkey, A Technico-Economic
Methodology for the Analysis of Local Telephone Markets. J.A.
Molka-Danielsen, M.B.H. Weiss, Firm Interaction and the Expected
Price for Access. D. Galbi, The Implications of By-Pass for
Traditional International Interconnection. M. Scanlan, Call-Back
and the Proportionate Return Rule: Who Are the Winners and Losers?
Part III: The Media. H.A. Shelanski, Video Competition
and the Public Interest Debate. A.J. Campbell, Lessons From Oz:
Quantitative Guidelines for Children's Educational Television. D.W.
Sosa, AM Stereo and the "Marketplace" Decision. Part IV:
The Internet. D.D. Clark, A Taxonomy of Internet Telephony
Applications. L.W. McKnight, B.A. Leida, Internet Telephony:
Costs, Pricing, and Policy. D.L. Burk, Muddy Rules for
Cyberspace. L.F. Cranor, J. Reagle, Jr., Designing a Social
Protocol: Lessons Learned From the Platform for Privacy Preferences
Project. Part V: Comparative Studies in Telephony and
Satellite Policy. H.E. Hudson, The Paradox of Ubiquity:
Communication Satellite Policies in Asia. R.B. Horwitz,
Participatory Policies and Sectoral Reform: Telecommunications Policy in
the New South Africa. W. Grieve, S.L. Levin, Telecom Competition
in Canada and the United States: The Tortoise and the Hare.
Year: 1998
Page Count: 320 pages
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-8058-3151-7
[paper] 0-8058-3152-5
Selected Papers from the 1996 Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference
edited by
Gregory L. Rosston
Federal Communications Commission
David Waterman
Indiana University
A Volume in the LEA Telecommunications Series
Publication Date: Summer/Fall, 1997
This volume is the third consecutive printed edition of selected
papers from the TPRC. It contains 15 papers selected from the 24th Annual TPRC, held at
Solomon's Island, MD, October 1-3, 1996.
The
Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Federal Communications
Commission's Local Competition Order are just two examples of the
continuing monumental and far-reaching changes occurring throughout the
telecommunications industry. At the 1996 Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference (TPRC) -- an annual forum for dialogue among
scholars and the policymaking community on a wide range of
telecommunications issues -- leading industry and academic researchers
presented results of their research and insights in key areas of
activity, including: *interconnection and competition; *Internet growth
and commerce; *Internet regulation and control; and *the political
economy of telecommunications regulation. The best of the 1996 TPRC
papers are included here, representing the forefront of research in the
telecommunications industry. The third in an annual LEA series of
volumes based on this important conference, this collection reflects the
rapid economic, technological, and social development of
telecommunications. It also reflects the current state of research
thinking on this issue and provides a foundation for further
telecommunications policy analysis.
Contents:
D. Waterman, Preface. G.L. Rosston, D. Waterman,
Introduction. Part I: Interconnection and Competition.
G.W. Brock, Local Competition Policy Maneuvers. M.L. Katz,
Economic Efficiency, Public Policy, and the Pricing of Network
Interconnection Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. J. Haring,
J.H. Rohlfs, Telecommunications Pricing and Competition. D.P.
Satapathy, J.M. Peha, Spectrum Sharing Without Licenses:
Opportunities and Dangers. Part II: Internet Growth and
Commerce. J. Katz, P. Aspden, Motivations for and Barriers to
Internet Usage: Results of a National Public Opinion Survey. D.D.
Clark, Combining Sender and Receiver Payments in the Internet.
J.K. MacKie-Mason, K. White, Evaluating and Selecting Digital
Payment Mechanisms. S. Singh, The Social Impact of Electronic
Money. F.A. Wolak, Electronic Substitution in the Household-Level
Demand for Postal Delivery Services. Part III: Internet
Regulation and Control. R.M. Frieden, Can and Should the FCC
Regulate Internet Telephony? L.J. Camp, D.M. Riley, Bedrooms,
Barrooms, and Boardrooms on the Internet. J. Weinberg, Rating the
Net. Part IV: Telecommunications and Politics. S.D.
Ross, Bell Had a Hammer: Using the First Amendment to Beat Down
Entry Barriers. G.R. Faulhaber, Voting on Prices: The Political
Economy of Regulation. H.E. Hudson, Restructuring the
Telecommunications Sector in Developing Regions: Lessons From Southeast
Asia.
Year: 1997
Page Count: 368 pages
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-8058-2847-8
[paper] 0-8058-2848-6
Selected Papers from the 1995 Telecommunications Policy and
Research Conference
edited by
Gerald W. Brock
George Washington University
Gregory L. Rosston
Federal Communications Commission
A Volume in the LEA Telecommunications Series
This book is based on the Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference which reports on research into telecommunications policy issues. While the
conference is now a respectable 23 years old, this is only the second printed edition of
selected papers. A new law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, accelerated the process of
integration in the communication industry and made major revisions to the Communications
Act of 1934 that increase the incentive for integration within the industry. Although the
papers in this volume were written prior to the passage of the new law, their importance
is merely enhanced by it. They deal with fundamental, complex policy problems that arise
when previously separate segments of the telecommunications industry are integrated,
rather than specific regulatory rules that are likely to be changed under the new law.
With the passage of this law, the timeframe for developing appropriate policies for an
integrated industry has been shortened. Changes expected to occur over a period of several
years will now likely occur much more rapidly. These papers provide insights to help guide
the transition in the industry.
Divided into five parts, this volume:
- deals with problems of transforming local exchange telephone
service from a monopoly in each geographical area to an interconnected competitive network
of networks,
- considers the pricing problems that arise in an integrated
network carrying traffic of different types across multiple service providers,
- examines the problem of achieving interoperability in complex
networks,
- considers issues of intellectual property that arise in expected
integrated networks of the future, and
- discusses electronic publication of scholarly journals, copyright
protection, and the applicability of copyright law in the digital age.
Audience:
Students and professionals in communication and telecommunications, and public and private
sector researchers and policymakers.
Contents:
D. Reed, Foreword. G. Rosston, G. Brock,
Introduction. Part I: Local Competition. T.J. Brennan, Is the Theory
Behind U.S. v AT&T Applicable Today? R. Stannard, The Rochester Local Exchange
Market Nine Months Later. N. Economides, L.J. White, Access and Interconnection
Pricing: How Efficient Is the "Efficient Component Pricing Rule?" Part II:
Pricing Problems in Complex Networks.Q. Wang, M. Sirbu, J. Peha, Pricing of
ATM Network Services. W.H. Lehr, M.B.H. Weiss, The Political Economy of Congestion
Charges and Settlements in Packet Networks. S. Shenker, D. Clark, D. Estrin, S. Herzog,
Pricing in Computer Networks: Reshaping the Research Agenda. Part III: Technologies
for Digital Video. D.P. Reed, The Transition to Digital Television Distribution
Systems: A Technological View of Expected Interoperability. N. Omoigui, M. Sirbu, C.
Eldering, N. Himayat, Comparing Integrated Broadband Architectures From an Economic
and Public Policy Perspective. Part IV: Blurring Policy Boundaries.J.
MacKie-Mason, S. Shenker, H.R. Varian, Network Architecture and Content Provision: An
Economic Analysis. J.M. Foley, Corporate Free Speech Rights and Diversity of
Content Control: An Emerging Dilemma. C. Weare, Organizing Interoperability:
Economic Institutions and the Development of Interoperability. Part V: Intellectual
Property. R.G. Noll, The Economics of Scholarly Publications and the
Information Superhighway. Y. Yuan, S.F. Roehrig, On the Duration of Copyright
Protection for Digital Information. J. Litman, Revising Copyright Law for the
Information Age.
Year: 1996
Page Count: 328 pages
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-8058-2418-9
[paper] 0-8058-2419-7
Selected Papers from the 1994 Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference
edited by
Gerald W. Brock
George Washington University
A Volume in the LEA Telecommunications Series
Providing an authoritative perspective on the best current
research regarding telecommunication policy, this book is based on the 22nd annual
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. The papers focus on the critical policy
issues created by increasing competition in the industry. The book contains a careful
analysis of local competition and interconnection, international competition, universal
service issues, the Internet and emerging new methods of communication, and the first
amendment problems created by changing telecommunication technology.
It brings together -- in a convenient form -- a wide range of
important scholarship on telecommunication policy that otherwise would require extensive
research into a variety of journals, government filings, and unpublished papers.
Reviews:
"Sixteen papers, resulting from a conference held in October 1994,
discuss the policy issues created by the transformation of
telecommunication services around the world from a monopoly-oriented,
government-dominated structure into a more market-oriented one."
-- Journal of Economic Literature
Audience:
Professionals in the telecommunication and communication fields as well as economics and
public policy; a text for courses in telecommunication policy or economics.
Contents:
P. Samuelson, Foreword. Part I: Introductory
Material. G.W. Brock, Introduction. L.K. Ruiz, Pricing Strategies and
Regulatory Effects in the U.S. Cellular Telecommunications Duopolies. N. Economides, C.
Himmelberg, Critical Mass and Network Evolution in Telecommunications. Part II:
Local Competition and Interconnection. R.G. Harris, G.L. Rosston, D.J. Teece,
Competition in Local Telecommunications: Implications of Unbundling for Antitrust Policy. B.
Mitchell, W. Neu, K-H. Neumann, I. Vogelsang, The Regulation of Pricing of
Interconnection Services. R.L. Cimerman, G.J. Waldau, Local Exchange Competition:
Alternative Models in Maryland. Part III:International Telecommunication. J.
Haring, J.H. Rohlfs, H.M. Shooshan III, The U.S. Stake in Competitive Global
Telecommunications. R.A. Cawley, The Changing Face of Transatlantic
Telecommunications. J.M. Bauer, The Anatomy and Regulatory Repercussions of Global
Telecommunications Strategies. Part IV: Universal Service. H. Sawhney,
Universal Service: Prosaic Motives and Great Ideals. M. Mueller, Universal Service
as an Appropriability Problem: A New Framework for Analysis. H.E. Hudson, Access to
Telecommunications in the Developing World: Ten Years After the Maitland Report. Part
V: The Internet and the NII. P. Srinagesh, Internet Cost Structures and
Interconnection Agreements. M.S. Blumenthal, Realizing the Information Future:
Technology, Economics, and the Open Data Network. P. Resnick, R. Zeckhauser, C. Avery,
Roles for Electronic Brokers. Part VI: The First Amendment and Changing
Technology. T.J. Brennan, Game Theory and the First Amendment: Strategic
Considerations and Freedom of the Press. R. Corn-Revere, Lost on the Infobahn
Without a Map: The Need for a Coherent First Amendment Approach.
Year: 1995
Page Count: 400 pages
ISBN:
[cloth]
0-8058-2030-2
[paper] 0-8058-2031-0
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