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Record Nr.

UNINA9910260625803321

Autore

Nuechterlein Jonathan E.

Titolo

Digital crossroads : telecommunications law and policy in the internet age / / Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2013]

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2013]

ISBN

0-262-31558-0

1-4619-3443-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 PDF (xix, 506 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

WeiserPhilip J

Disciplina

384.0973

Soggetti

Telecommunication policy - United States

Telecommunication - Deregulation - United States

Internet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Digital Crossroads, two experts on telecommunications policy offer a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the regulation of competition in the U.S. telecommunications industry. The first edition of Digital Crossroads (MIT Press, 2005) became an essential and uniquely readable guide for policymakers, lawyers, scholars, and students in a fast-moving and complex policy field. In this second edition, the authors have revised every section of every chapter to reflect the evolution in industry structure, technology, and regulatory strategy since 2005. The book features entirely new discussions of such topics as the explosive development of the mobile broadband ecosystem; incentive auctions and other recent spectrum policy initiatives; the FCC's net neutrality rules; the National Broadband Plan; the declining relevance of the traditional public switched telephone network; and the policy response to online video services and their potential to transform the way Americans watch television. Like its predecessor, this new edition of Digital Crossroads not only helps nonspecialists climb this field's formidable learning curve, but also makes substantive contributions to ongoing policy debates.