The second information revolution /

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Thanks to inexpensive computers and data communications, the speed and volume of human communication are exponentially greater than they were even a quarter-century ago. Not since the advent of the telephone and telegraph in the nineteenth century has information technology changed daily life so rad...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brock, Gerald W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Telecommunication.
Information science.
Electronic information resources.
Telecommunications
Télécommunications.
Sciences de l'information.
Sources d'information électroniques.
telecommunications.
information science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Telecommunicatie.
Elektronische informatie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • The promise of regulation
  • Conceptual framework
  • 2. The first information revolution
  • The development of telegraph services
  • The telephone and state regulation
  • Radio and federal regulation
  • 3. Technological origins of the second information Revolution, 1940-1950
  • Radar
  • The transistor
  • Electronic digital computers
  • 4. The SAGE project
  • I. The separate worlds of computers and communications, 1950-1968
  • 5. The early semiconductor industry
  • The creation of a competitive market
  • Innovation and the integrated circuit
  • Falling prices, rising output
  • 6. The early commercial computer industry
  • Vacuum-tube and transistor computers
  • The system/360 and IBM dominance
  • Alternatives to IBM computers
  • 7. The regulated monopoly telephone industry
  • Antitrust and the 1956 consent decree
  • Microwave technology and potential long distance competition
  • Central office switches
  • Terminal equipment
  • II. Boundary disputes and limited competition, 1969-1984
  • 8. Data communications
  • Packet-switching and the arpanet
  • Network protocols and interconnection
  • Local area networks and ethernet
  • 9. From mainframes to microprocessors
  • Intel and the microprocessor
  • Personal computers and workstations
  • 10. The computer-communications boundary
  • Computer-assisted messages: Communications or data processing?
  • Smart terminals" Teletypewriters or computers?
  • Interconnection of customer-owned equipment with the telephone network
  • The deregulation of terminal equipment
  • The deregulation of enhanced services
  • 11. Fringe competition in long distance telephone service
  • Competition in specialized services
  • Competition in switched services
  • The transition to optical fiber
  • 12. Divestiture and access charges
  • The divestiture
  • Access charges
  • The enhanced service provider exemption
  • III. Interconnected competition and integrated services, 1985-2002
  • 13. Mobile telephones and spectrum reform
  • Early land mobile telephones
  • Cellular spectrum allocation
  • Cellular licensing problems
  • Spectrum instructional reform
  • PCS and auctions
  • 14. Local competition and the Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • Competitive access providers
  • Interconnection: CAP to CLEC
  • The Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • 15. The Internet and the World Wide Web
  • The commercial Internet and backbone interconnection
  • The development of the Web
  • The new economy financial boom and bust
  • Real growth in telecommunication and price benefits
  • 16. Conclusion
  • Technological progress and policy evolution
  • The process of institutional change
  • Final comment.

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