The great telecom meltdown /
In today's telecom business environment, a thorough and accurate understanding of past mistakes goes a long way in ensuring future success. Providing you with an authoritative account of what contributed to the "Great Telecom Crash", this insightful resource explores the roots of the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Artech House,
©2005.
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Colección: | Artech House telecommunications library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Great Telecom Meltdown
- Contents v
- Preface xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- 1 Ma Bell and Her "Natural Monopoly," 1876-1969 1
- Natural and Unnatural Monopoly 1
- Western Union 2
- Patent Protection 3
- The Kingsbury Commitment 4
- The Slow Pace of Progress 5
- The Smith Decision and Universal Service 6
- The Final Judgment 7
- Hushaphone and the First Cracks in the Monopoly 7
- The Disruptive Transistor 8
- Endnotes 10
- 2 The Rebirth of Competition 11
- Carterfone Made the Network More Valuable 11
- MCI's Shared Microwave Opened New Doors 20
- Endnotes 25.
- 3 Divestiture: Equal Access and Chinese Walls 27
- Vertical Integration 27
- AT & T Kept Out of the Computer Industry 28
- The Money's in Long Distance, Right? 32
- The Centrex Revival 39
- Digital Switching Becomes the Norm 40
- Digitization of the Transmission Network 43
- ISDN Fails to Make a Dent 46
- Endnotes 53
- 4 The Internet Boom and the Limits to Growth 57
- The ARPAnet Was a Seminal Research Network 57
- OSI, the Big Committee That Couldn't 62
- Commercialization at Last 65
- Internet Traffic Explodes as the Public Joins 69
- ISP Pricing Creates Permanent Losses 74.
- Dotcoms Create a Demand Bubble 76
- Carrier Hotels Created Too Much Room at the Inn 80
- The Bubble Bursts in Equipment Manufacturers' Faces 81
- Endnotes 83
- 5 The Deuteronomy Networks 85
- The Short-Term Bandwidth Crunch Invited More Suppliers 86
- Kiewit Sells MFS, Creates Level 3 88
- Williams Sold Wiltel, Created Another One 90
- Metromedia Sold Cellular and Long-Haul, Created MFN 91
- XO Communications Recycles Cellular Profits 92
- Undersea, Undersea, Under Beautiful Sea 93
- How Much Bandwidth Was Available? 94
- Endnotes 96.
- 6 Losing by Winning: Wireless License Auctions 97
- Original License Lotteries Led to Farcical Resale 99
- The Top Cellular Networks Grew to Profitability 100
- Networks Go Digital 101
- The PCS Auction Was a Success 103
- "3G" Combined the Allure of Both Internet and Wireless 105
- Many Large Incumbents Were Left With Huge Debt 109
- Endnotes 109
- 7 Competitive Access Providers, the Costly Way to Local Competition 111
- RBOC Prices to Large Customers Were Out of Line 111
- States Supported RBOC Monopolies More Than the FCC Did 113
- Teleport Cracks the NYNEX Monopoly 114.
- Competitors Outrace RBOCs to Provide Local Fiber-Optic Connections 115
- The Telecom Act Opens Local Service Competition 117
- Fixed Wireless as an Alternative to Fiber? 119
- Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) Gave Cable Providers an Advantage on "Triple Play" 122
- Endnotes 130
- 8 DLECs and ELECs: An Exercise in Oversupply 133
- DSL First Failed as a Video Offering 134
- The Telecom Act Invites Novel Use of Unbundled Loops 134
- Capital Poisoning Led DLECs to Overexpand 136
- Ethernet LECs Were Data CAPs 140
- Endnotes 142
- 9 CLECs' Winning Strategies Are Met by Rule Changes 145.