附註:Papers from two conferences: one held by AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Oct. 4-5, 2001 and the other by Columbia University Center for Tele-Information in New York.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Broadband mysteries / Bruce M. Owen -- The demand for bandwidth : evidence from the Index Project / Hal R. Varian -- The demand for broadband : access, content, and the value of time / Paul N. Rappoport, Donald J. Kridel, and Lester D. Taylor -- Wired high-speed access / Charles L. Jackson -- From 2G to 3G : wireless competition for Internet-related services / Jerry Hausman -- Internet-related services : the results of asymmetric regulation / Jerry Hausman -- Competition and regulation : the case of broadband communications / Howard Shelanski -- Regulation and vertical integration in broadband access supply / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Broadband deployment : is policy in the way? / Gerald R. Faulhaber -- The financial effects of broadband regulation / George Bittlingmayer and Thomas W. Hazlett -- Subsidies, the value of broadband, and the importance of fixed costs / Austan Goolsbee -- The benefits of broadband and the effect of regulation / Robert W. Crandall, Robert W. Hahn, and Timothy J. Tardiff.
摘要:A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed ¡°broadband¡± Internet connections for residential and small-business customers, the demand for IT equipment and new Internet service applications may stagnate. Broadband policy is controversial in large part because of the differences in the regulatory regimes faced by different types of carriers. C.
