Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in CommunicationsRobert W. Crandall, Kenneth Flamm Brookings Institution Press, 29.06.2001 - 450 Seiten Since 1971 competition has begun to replace regulation as a governing force in the telecommunications industry. The breakup of the national telephone monopolies, technological advances, and the worldwide network in telecommunications have brought a revolution in the telecommunications equipment and services industries. These changes have forced legislators and regulators to rethink public policy toward communications. The papers in this book were first presented at a conference organized by Robert Crandall and Kenneth Flamm, pulling together a group of industry professionals and scholars to address the far-reaching implications of the upheaval in the communications industry. The contributors analyze the effects of this increasing competition on standardization, technical innovation, and international rivalry. Changing the Rules offers possible policy options and analyzes their potential effects on the future market structure and the competitive positions of the U.S. computer and communications industries. |
Inhalt
Overview | 1 |
Technological Convergence? | 3 |
Innovation Regulation and Competition | 4 |
Problems Raised by Liberalization | 7 |
Pressures for Change in Other Markets | 8 |
Conclusion | 9 |
Innovation Regulation and Competition | 11 |
Computers versus Communications | 13 |
Standard Setting in the Telecommunications and Computer Industries | 189 |
Noncooperative Standard Setting | 193 |
Standards and Competition | 202 |
Telecommunications Standards Telephone Regulation and the FCC | 209 |
The Determination of Telecommunications Standards | 212 |
Conclusion | 219 |
Telecommunications Policy and US National Security | 221 |
Military Need for the Commercial Telecommunications Networks | 222 |
Elements of Computer and Communications Systems | 14 |
Technological Progress in Computers | 16 |
Technological Progress in Communications Systems | 19 |
Measuring the Effects of Technological Advance on Costs | 27 |
Divergence of Computer and Communications Equipment Costs | 53 |
Policy Issues | 58 |
US Interexchange Competition | 62 |
The Interexchange Market before and after Divestiture | 64 |
Telecommunications Services | 72 |
The Interexchange MarketMarket Shares and Regulatory Alternatives | 96 |
Summary and Conclusions | 111 |
The Role of the US Local Operating Companies | 114 |
Boundaries between Regulated and Competitive Markets | 115 |
Vertical Integration in Economic Theory | 116 |
The Theory of the Modified Final Judgment | 118 |
The Theory Examined | 120 |
Empirical Evidence on the MFJs Anticompetitive Practices Arguments | 127 |
Current Policy Choices | 139 |
Judge Greenes 1987 Opinion | 145 |
Summary | 146 |
Deregulation in Japan | 147 |
The Institutional Framework | 148 |
An Anatomy of NTTs Telecommunications Services | 152 |
The Emergence of Competition and Universal Service | 168 |
Problems under Liberalization | 175 |
The Economics of Telecommunications Standards | 177 |
Determinants of the StandardSetting Process | 178 |
Cooperative Standard Setting in Practice | 186 |
Technology Policy and National Security | 246 |
Pressures for Change in Global Markets | 255 |
International Telecommunications in Transition | 257 |
Origins of the Traditional Network | 258 |
The New Ideology of the PostalIndustrial Complex | 259 |
Forces of Disintegration | 260 |
The New Generation of Telecommunications Carriers | 269 |
Equipment and Trade | 280 |
International Collaboration in Telecommunications | 290 |
Outlook | 294 |
Information Industries in the Newly Industrializing Countries | 298 |
The Evolution of Information Industries in the NICs | 301 |
Strategic Policies | 309 |
Emerging International Regulatory Issues | 319 |
Conclusion | 325 |
Growth of the Telecommunications and Computer Industries | 328 |
A Growth Model of TechnologyIntensive Industries | 329 |
Application to the US Telecommunications Industry | 336 |
Application to the US Computer Industry | 353 |
Concluding Observations | 362 |
Methodology | 373 |
Data | 404 |
Depreciation and Innovation | 406 |
Tradeoffs in Network Design | 408 |
Conference Panelists and Discussants | 411 |
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