The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies, Report of a Symposium - Softcover

National Research Council; Policy And Global Affairs; Board On Science, Technology, And Economic Policy; Committee On Measuring And Sustaining The New Economy; Committee On The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies And Evolving Policies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309100879 ISBN 13: 9780309100878

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2006

Synopsis

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management continue to promise further gains in productivity, a phenomenon often referred to as the New Economy. To better understand the sources of these gains and the policy measures needed to sustain these positive trends, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a series of workshops and commissioned papers on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy. This workshop, entitled "The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies," brought together leading industry representatives and government officials to discuss issues generated by the rapid technological change occurring in the telecommunications industry and the regulatory and policy challenges this creates. The workshop presented a variety of perspectives relating to developments in the telecommunications industry such as the potential of and impediments to broadband technology.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• I. Introduction
• II. Proceedings: Introduction
• Overview: "The End of Stovepiping"
• Technological Change and Economic Opportunity: The View from the Federal Communications Commission
• Panel I: New Technology Trends and Implications
• Panel II: The Broadband Opportunity: What Needs to be Done?
• Panel III: The Waterfall Effects
• Panel IV: Participants' Roundtable
• Concluding Remarks
• Appendix A. Biographies of Speakers
• Appendix B. Participants List
• Appendix C. Selected Bibliography

About this title

About the Author

Charles W. Wessner, Editor, Committee on the Telecommunications Challenge, Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies, Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy, National Research Council

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0309100879
• ISBN 13: 9780309100878
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Wessner Charles W.