Handbook of Telecommunications Economics
Subtitle: Technology Evolution and the Internet
Contributors: Vogelsang, I.; Cave, M.
Publisher: Emerald Group Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 674
ISBN-13: 9780080460147
Description: Aims to highlight the economic aspects of the evolution of communications technologies beyond the fixed-line telephony infrastructure. This volume covers the major technological developments and tracks the changes in these developments, linking them to the ways that both communications can take place and that institutions and policies can evolve.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: front cover; copyright; front matter; List of Contributors; table of contents; body; 1 Technology Evolution and the Internet: Introduction; 2 Emerging Network Technologies; 3 Bandwagon Effects in Telecommunications; 4 Platform Competition in Telecommunications; 5 Broadband Communications; 6 Cable Television; 7 Wireless Communications; 8 The Economic Geography of Internet Infrastructure in the United States; 9 The Economics of the Internet Backbone; 10 Pricing Traffic on Interconnected Networks: Issues, Approaches, and Solutions; 11 Toward an Economics of the Domain Name System.; title: 12 Bottlenecks and Bandwagons: Access Policy in the New Telecommunications13 European and American Approaches to Antitrust Remedies and the Institutional Design of Regulation in Telecommunications; 14 Telecommunications and Economic Development; 15 Institutional changes in Emerging Markets : Implications For the Telecommunications Sector; index.