The Politics of Bandwidth: Convergence, Globalization and the Future of Telecom Regulation
Overview
Public Policy in the Convergence Era
Technical Factors in Convergence
Policy Uncertainty of Convergence
The Regulatory Impact of Convergence
Network Scale and Market Concentration
Regulatory Leverage in Concentration
The Policy Inversion of Concentration
The Regulatory Trilogy Redux
Interconnection in the Convergence Era
USF in the Convergence Era
Access Charges in the Convergence Era
Reexamining the Trilogy?
Bandwidth and Internet Everywhere
The Bandwidth Dilemma
The Trilogy (Now and Tomorrow)
Internet Ubiquity
Beyond the 1996 Telecom Act
Building a New Paradigm
Who Will Build the New Order?
The Consequences of Temporizing
Regulatory Uncertainty and Innovation
Back to the Future
Conclusions
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