The objective of the second volume of the ''Handbook of Telecommunications Economics'' is to highlight the economic aspects of the evolution of communications technologies beyond the basic fixed-line telephony infrastructure that was covered in Volume 1. In that book, structural, regulatory and competition policy issues with respect to a well-known technology were covered. Yet, technological options have increased in a quantum manner. Fuelled by the creativity of entrepreneurs and policy-makers world wide, it is safe to infer that a process of creative destruction is well underway. Volume 2 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. Written by world leading scholars in a manner that will be appreciated by a wide audience of academics and professionals, the fifteen detailed reviews that make up this book provide an academic perspective on these contemporary changes.
Author(s): Sumit Kumar Majumdar, Ingo Vogelsang, Martin E. Cave
Series: Handbook of Telecommunications Economics
Publisher: North-Holland
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 663
front cover......Page 1
copyright......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 6
table of contents......Page 10
1 Technology Evolution and the Internet: Introduction......Page 21
2 Emerging Network Technologies......Page 49
3 Bandwagon Effects in Telecommunications......Page 98
4 Platform Competition in Telecommunications......Page 135
5 Broadband Communications......Page 172
6 Cable Television......Page 208
7 Wireless Communications......Page 258
8 The Economic Geography of Internet Infrastructure in the United States......Page 303
9 The Economics of the Internet Backbone......Page 389
10 Pricing Traffic on Interconnected Networks: Issues, Approaches, and Solutions......Page 429
11 Toward an Economics of the Domain Name System......Page 456
12 Bottlenecks and Bandwagons: Access Policy in the New Telecommunications......Page 501
13 European and American Approaches to Antitrust Remedies and the Institutional Design of Regulation in Telecommunications......Page 531
14 Telecommunications and Economic Development......Page 568
15 Institutional changes in Emerging Markets : Implications For the Telecommunications Sector......Page 633
index......Page 668
