Winning the silicon sweepstakes : can the United States compete in global telecommunications? /

In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the myriad ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications. Despite the appearance of robust competition and entrepreneurism in U.S. telecom markets, there is very little of either. Because of an inattentive Congress and a mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frieden, Rob
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Telecommunication policy > United States.
Telecommunication > United States.
Information technology > United States.
Télécommunications > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Télécommunications > États-Unis.
Technologie de l'information > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Télécommunications.
Technologie de l'information.
Politique technologique.
Information technology
Telecommunication
Telecommunication policy
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The law of unintended results
  • Feast and famine in the information age
  • How the United States lost its digital advantage
  • Case studies in wrongheaded policymaking
  • Best and worst practices
  • Understanding the Dotcom implosion
  • The fundamentals of digital literacy
  • Challenges and choices
  • The impact of technological and market convergence
  • Capturing the benefits of convergence
  • What government should do
  • Unresolved issues
  • The way forward.

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