Communications Policy in Transition: The Internet and BeyondBenjamin M. Compaine, Shane M. Greenstein MIT Press, 2001 - 425 lappuses A collection of research reports on policy issues involving telecommunications, particularly the Internet. 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 This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet.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. |
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Broadband Architectures ISP Business Plans and Open | 35 |
Regulatory Treatment of IP Transport and Services | 59 |
The EndtoEnd Arguments | 91 |
Policy Implications of the Internet Architecture | 141 |
The Potential for Scrutiny of Internet Peering Policies | 159 |
Comparing the United States | 195 |
State and Local | 221 |
Competition and CrossSubsidy | 241 |
What Children | 265 |
Accessibility of Broadband Telecommunications Services by Various | 295 |
Reexamining the Digital Divide | 321 |
Sorting Out the Search Engine Market | 351 |
Copyright in the Age of Distributed Applications | 369 |
Should Congress Establish a Compulsory License for Internet Video | 397 |
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