Browsing Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence by Title
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Accessability of Broadband Communication Services by Various Segments of the American Population
(2000-09)Technology such as the Internet is becoming an important ingredient for economic and social advancement. There is a growing national concern about the ability of all segments of the American society to be able to access ... -
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
(1996-03-08)We are about to witness one of those revolutionary shifts in technology that pass through similar stages of pathologic stress often chronicled for human behavior: first an imperceptible perturbation deemed a singularity ... -
An Atomicity-Generating Layer for Anonymous Currencies
(2002-07-22)Atomicity is a necessary element for reliable transactions (Financial Service Technology Consortium, 1995; Camp, Sirbu and Tygar, 1995; Tygar, 1996). Anonymity is also an issue of great importance not only to designers ... -
Berkshire Connect: A Case Study of Demand Aggregation
(2002-07-22)Berkshire County is home to about 135,000 people on the far western edge of Massachusetts. It is perhaps best known as the scenic mountainous region that is home to cultural institutions such as Tanglewood (the summer ... -
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 ...