Digital Crossroads - Table of Contents

March 2005
6 x 9, 688 pp.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-14091-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-14091-1

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Digital Crossroads
American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age
Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser

	Acknowledgements	xiii

	Preface	xv

1.	The Big Picture Sample Chapter - Download PDF (136 KB)	1

2.	Introduction to Wireline Telecommunications	31

3.	Wireline Competition Under the 1996 Act	69

4.	A Primer on Internet Technology	115

5.	Monopoly Leveraging Concerns and the Internet	149

6.	VoIP and Proposals for "Horizontal" Regulation	191

7.	The Spectrum	225

8.	Mobile Wireless Services	261

9.	Intercarrier Compensation	291

10.	Universal Service in the Age of Competition	333

11.	Competition in the Delivery of Television Programming	357

12.	Telecommunications Standards, Technological Transitions, and Digital Television	385

13.	The Future of Telecommunications Policy	407

	Appendix A: The Pricing of Network Elements	431

	Appendix B: Enforcement Mechanisms Under the 1996 Act	455

	Statutory Addendum	461

	List of Notable Commentaries	493

	Table of Authorities	513

	Notes	533

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (108 KB)	643

	Glossary of Acronyms	667

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