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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971070103321

Titolo

The telecommunications challenge : changing technologies and evolving policies : measuring and sustaining the new economy : report of a symposium / / Committee on the Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies, Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council ; Charles W. Wessner, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : The National Academies Press, c2006

ISBN

9786610567515

9780309180221

0309180228

9781280567513

1280567511

9780309656283

0309656281

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WessnerCharles W

Disciplina

621.382

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Technological innovations

Telecommunication policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194).

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Acronyms""; ""I INTRODUCTION""; ""Telecommunications in the New Economy""; ""II PROCEEDINGS""; ""Introduction--Dale W. Jorgenson""; ""Overview: The End of Stovepiping--William J. Raduchel""; ""Technological Change and Economic Opportunity: The View from the Federal Communications Commission--Peter A. Tenhula""; ""Panel I : New Technology Trends and Implications""; ""Panel II: The Broadband Opportunity: What Needs to Be Done?""; ""Panel III: The Waterfall Effects""; ""Panel IV: Participants Roundtable""; ""Concluding Remarks""

""III APPENDIXES""""Appendix A Biographies of Speakers""; ""Appendix B Participants List""; ""Appendix C Selected Bibliography""



Sommario/riassunto

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management continue to promise further gains in productivity, a phenomenon often referred to as the New Economy. To better understand the sources of these gains and the policy measures needed to sustain these positive trends, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a series of workshops and commissioned papers on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy. This workshop, entitled  oeThe Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies,  brought together leading industry representatives and government officials to discuss issues generated by the rapid technological change occurring in the telecommunications industry and the regulatory and policy challenges this creates. The workshop presented a variety of perspectives relating to developments in the telecommunications industry such as the potential of and impediments to broadband technology.