Browsing Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence by Title
Now showing items 8-27 of 67
-
Best Effort versus Spectrum Markets: Wideband and Wi-Fi versus 3G MVNOs?
(2001-10-28)This paper asks is whether (i) 3rd generation wireless services, as embodied in the planned and soon to be offered services emerging first in Asia and Europe, or (ii) the unlicensed wireless services such as 802.11 or ... -
A Broadband Access Market Framework: Towards Consumer Service Level Agreements
(2000-09)Ubiquitous broadband access is considered by many to be necessary for the Internet to realize its full potential. But there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes broadband access. Furthermore, there is ... -
Broadband Architectures, ISP Business Plans, and Open Access
(2000-09)Something suspiciously resembling a double standard exists in US regulation of broadband access carriers. Incumbent local exchange carriers?ILECs?are required to open their networks to competing service providers, while ... -
Committee Jurisdiction and Internet Intellectual Property Protection
(2002-07-22)This paper examines the impact of increasingly common congressional committee jurisdictional turf wars on policy outcomes. It develops a theoretical model that shows how legislators balance the benefits of expanded ... -
Comparative Deregulation of Far Eastern Telecommunications Markets: Economic Incentives and International Competitive Strategies
(1997-09)The deregulation of telecommunications has taken a major step with the WTO agreements in February of this year. Namely, each of the major Far Eastern countries has agreed to open their market in some form of planned ... -
Content is not King
(2000)The Internet is widely regarded as primarily a content delivery system. Yet historically, connectivity has mattered much more than content. Even on the Internet, content is not as important as is often claimed, since it ... -
A Contribution to the Understanding of Illegal Copying of Software: Empirical and Analytical Evidence Against Conventional Wisdom
(2002-07-22)This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66 countries. By studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows that supply constraints ... -
Current Federal and State Policy Issues Pertaining to Verizon Communications and Broadband Deployment in Massachusetts
(2002-07-22)This background briefing paper was drafted by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative to help the Mass Broadband Initiative advisory committee understand the context of several important regulatory issues affecting ... -
The Disruptive User - Internet Appliances and the Management of Complexity
(2001-10)Bringing networked computing to new users and new contexts entails a disruptive decrease in the level of user patience for complexity. This paper discusses the tensions involved in making devices as easy to use as traditional ... -
The Evolution of International Internet Telephony
(2000-09)International Internet Telephony has been evolving since its introduction in 1996. In 1996, the typical player was someone like Delta Three, who used the Internet as a backbone network, used agreements with local ISPs to ... -
Future Directions of Personal Multimedia Communication Space: Investigation of Wireless Markets, Systems, and Standards in Regard to Multimedia over IP
(1997-08-15)Mobile communications and Internet based computer communications are the two fastest growing areas of communications indicating an enormous business potential in the intersection of these two domains. Since the introduction ... -
A Game Theoretic Modeling and Analysis for Internet Access Market
(2002-07-22)In this paper, we study the local dial-up Internet access market using a game theoretic model. In particular, we consider the Nash equilibrium of the service providers and examine their behavior on investment and output ... -
The History of Communications and Its Implications for the Internet
(2000)The Internet is the latest in a long succession of communication technologies. The goal of this work is to draw lessons from the evolution of all these services. Little attention is paid to technology as such, since that ... -
Integrated Service in the Internet Architecture: An Overview
(1994-05)This memo discusses an extension to the Internet architecture and protocols to provide "integrated service", i.e., to support real-time as well as best-effort IP service. This memo outlines a proposed technical framework ... -
Interconnection Payments in Telecommunications: A Competitive Market Approach
(2002-07-22)In this paper, we first discuss the concept of "Bill-and-Keep" whereby the party that receives a call pays for receiving the call. We explore if this outcome is efficient and consistent with competitive markets. Following ...