Perspectives on the New Economics and Regulation of Telecommunications

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Perspectives on the New Economics and Regulation of Telecommunications is written by Institute for Research on Public Policy and published by IRPP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0886451744 (ISBN 10) and 9780886451745 (ISBN 13).

This volume is a compilation of papers reflecting many of the issues related to telecommunications that are being debated today and are likely to continue to be addressed in the next few years. The papers examine the ways in which economic and technological forces are changing the regulation of telecommunications and the characteristics of the industry itself. After an introduction on issues such as the information highway, industry consolidation, market integration, and constraints on new policies, the papers cover such topics as the changes in Canadian telecommunications and their economics, the role of telecommunications in productivity and competition, the business network concept as an alternative governance structure, competition policy, convergence of technologies, separation of infrastructure from services, European telecommunications policy, and the historical context in which Canada has handled earlier transformations of a technological nature.