Telecommunication Books Blog » Policies & Regulations http://www.telecombooksblog.com This blog collects telecom books for professionals, students, and people who are interested in telecommunications technology and business. Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:18:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Wireless Foresight: Scenarios of the Mobile World in 2015 http://www.telecombooksblog.com/wireless-foresight-scenarios-of-the-mobile-world-in-2015.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/wireless-foresight-scenarios-of-the-mobile-world-in-2015.htm#comments Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:48:05 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/wireless-foresight-scenarios-of-the-mobile-world-in-2015.htm

"The book provides good food for thought and should prove inspiring for anyone in the industry…"(IEE Communications Engineer, February 2004)]]> Wireless Foresight: Scenarios of the Mobile World in 2015 Bo Karlson, Aurelian Bria, Jonas Lind, Peter L?nnqvist, Cristian Norlin
ISBN: 047085815X
October 2003

This book deals with the development of the wireless communications industry and technology during the coming ten to fifteen years. Telecommunications is a global business of enormous proportions and is one of the largest industries in the world.

Written in a highly accessible and simple to read manner, this book is based around four scenarios of the wireless world in 2015. The focus is on the industry (i.e. infrastructure and terminal vendors, operators, and service developers and providers) as well as on new players.

  • Discusses the long-term developments described in the four scenarios and also short term issues, for example the challenges facing industry.
  • Uncovers important areas for technological research and discusses the critical challenges facing industry, for example; the high cost for infrastructure, the slow spectrum release, the stampeding system complexity, radiation, battery capacity, and the threat of a disruptive market change facing the telecommunications industry.
  • Offers a global approach whereby developments from around the world are described.
  • Employs the method of building full-scale scenarios as opposed to just identifying trends and making predictions.

Wireless Foresight is an invaluable and provocative read for top and middle management, strategists, business developers, technology managers, and entrepreneurs in the telecom, datacom and infocom industries alike. It is also of great interest to financial analysts and academics.

source: wiley

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/wireless-foresight-scenarios-of-the-mobile-world-in-2015.htm/feed 0 The Mobile Revolution: The Making of Mobile Services Worldwide http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-mobile-revolution-the-making-of-mobile-services-worldwide.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-mobile-revolution-the-making-of-mobile-services-worldwide.htm#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:46:53 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-mobile-revolution-the-making-of-mobile-services-worldwide.htm

"Essential reading for anybody who wants to understand how mobility and mobile technology is transforming the way we live and function." -- Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, VP & GM Multimedia, Nokia "Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, VP & GM Multimedia, Nokia" ]]> The Mobile Revolution: The Making of Mobile Services Worldwide Dan STEINBOCK
ISBN: 0749448504
November 2006

In The Mobile Revolution senior executives of the world’s leading mobile vendors, operators, service providers, software giants, chip kings, media and entertainment conglomerates, publishers, music moguls and brand marketers reveal their secrets and strategies. Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Qualcomm, Vodafone, Microsoft, Intel, Yahoo, New York Times, EMI, CNN, ABC, Disney, Warner Music and Universal are just a few of the names that feature. As a result, the book abounds with inside stories of great industry successes (and equally great flops!) as the narrative shifts constantly between the major cities of several continents – from Helsinki and Stockholm, London and Frankfurt, Tokyo and Seoul, Beijing and Singapore, New York City and Los Angeles, to Bangalore and Moscow.

The Mobile Revolution is about the making of mobile markets and services worldwide, with a firm emphasis on innovation. Not just another account of technology innovation, it examines the rise of mobile services in the context of maturing and emerging mobile markets.

source: kogan-page

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-mobile-revolution-the-making-of-mobile-services-worldwide.htm/feed 1 Global Broadband Battles: Why the U.S. and Europe Lag While Asia Leads http://www.telecombooksblog.com/global-broadband-battles-why-the-us-and-europe-lag-while-asia-leads.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/global-broadband-battles-why-the-us-and-europe-lag-while-asia-leads.htm#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:40:57 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/global-broadband-battles-why-the-us-and-europe-lag-while-asia-leads.htm Global Broadband Battles: Why the U.S. and Europe Lag While Asia Leads “Global Broadband Battles is a fascinating and detailed account of the reasons why Japan and Korea have risen to world leadership in broadband communication, while the U.S. and Europe have been lagging. Fransman’s book forcefully presents important policy lessons for companies and governments: competition should be fostered, the entry of new firms should be supported, and a regulatory regime allowing new competitors to be innovative should be encouraged.”—Franco Malerba, Director of Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalization, Bocconi University, Italy]]> Global Broadband Battles: Why the U.S. and Europe Lag While Asia Leads Martin Fransman
ISBN: 0804753067
April 2006

Broadband communications have become the most important focus in th current evolution of the Internet. But there is a significant difference in th broadband performance of different countries, raising critical issues abou the United States, Japan and Korea, and the European Union. The Unite States gave rise to the Internet, but ranks eleventh in global broadban penetration. Japan and Korea lead the world in broadband penetration and yet neither country dominates the global information an communications industry. The European Union has developed an effectiv new regulatory framework for electronic communications, yet follows bot Asia and the United States. Global Broadband Battles explains these issues while analyzing the dynamic drivers of the broadband industry, including many of the technologies involved.

 

source: Standford University Press

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/global-broadband-battles-why-the-us-and-europe-lag-while-asia-leads.htm/feed 1 The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Separation of Powers http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-and-the-separation-of-powers.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-and-the-separation-of-powers.htm#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:21:38 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-and-the-separation-of-powers.htm The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Separation of Powers"This book evaluates the FCCís successes and failures in implementing watershed legislation to deregulate the telecommunications industry. Harold Furchtgott-Rothís intellectual rigor and real-world experience in government deliver stunning insights into the interplay of politics, economics, and law in the modern regulatory state. This book is required reading for any student of administrative law, public choice, and the regulation of industry."
J. Gregory Sidak, visiting professor of law, Georgetown University]]> The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Separation of Powers Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth
ISBN: 084474235X
January 2006

The tenth anniversary on February 8, 2006, of the widely criticized Telecommunications Act of 1996 comes at a time when Congress is actively considering legislation to replace it. The legislative proposals address many symptoms of industry ailments under current law. But will a new law make any difference?

In his new book, A Tough Act to Follow: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Separation of Powers (AEI Press, January 2006), former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth answers this question and explores why communications policy has been disembodied from communications law. After carefully examining the FCCís powers to write rules, administer and enforce those rules, and adjudicate disputes under those rules, Furchtgott-Roth concludes that it is the structure of the independent agency rather than problems with a poorly written law that will thwart efforts to improve the situation. The FCC possesses all the powers of governmentólegislative, executive, and judicialóand no other part of the federal government has control over its activities.

Given the FCCís concentration of powers and broad discretion, ì[t]here is little reason to expect a new communications law written in 2006 to be more closely followed than the one in 1996,î continues Furchtgott-Roth. ìA few words of law will not necessarily dictate the regulation of an industry and rewriting communications law that leads to clear and enforceable rules is not a simple task.î

Furchtgott-Rothís findings in A Tough Act to Follow have deep repercussions: uncertainty about how a government agency or court will interpret a law corrodes investor confidence. In the late 1990s, investors poured billions of dollars into hundreds of new telecommunications ventures based on plans anchored in FCC rules written under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Within a few years, many of those rules were overturned by courts or simply changed by the FCC. Many of the new businesses disappeared, and those that remain are greatly weakened. Even today, many business plansóboth for existing and new firmsóhave been waiting for greater clarity about federal rules from the FCC and the courts. Investors naturally worry that this uncertainty will remain.

Furchtgott-Roth concludes that the problems associated with the FCC are not unique to the agency. Many other government agenciesóincluding the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Securities and Exchange Commissionóhave overly broad powers that give them wide discretion.

 

source: AEI Press

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]]> http://www.telecombooksblog.com/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-and-the-separation-of-powers.htm/feed 0 American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age http://www.telecombooksblog.com/american-telecommunications-policy-in-the-internet-age.htm http://www.telecombooksblog.com/american-telecommunications-policy-in-the-internet-age.htm#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2005 05:26:52 +0000 Tony http://www.telecombooksblog.com/?p=32 American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet AgeTelecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a clear, balanced, and accessible analysis of competition policy issues in the telecommunications industry. After giving a big picture overview of the field, they present sharply reasoned analyses of the major technological, economic, and legal developments confronting communications policymakers in the twenty-first century.

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American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Philip J. Weiser
ISBN: 0262140918
March 2005

Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a clear, balanced, and accessible analysis of competition policy issues in the telecommunications industry. After giving a big picture overview of the field, they present sharply reasoned analyses of the major technological, economic, and legal developments confronting communications policymakers in the twenty-first century.

Since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, when Congress fundamentally reoriented the existing regulatory scheme, no book has cogently explained the intricacies of telecommunications competition policy in the Internet age for general readers, students, and practitioners alike. Digital Crossroads meets this need, focusing on the regulatory dimensions of competition in wireline and wireless telephone service; competition among rival platforms for broadband Internet service and video distribution; and the Internet’s transformation of every aspect of the telecommunications industry, particularly through the emergence of “voice over Internet protocol” (VoIP). The authors explain not just the complicated legal issues governing the industry, but also the rapidly changing technological and economic context in which these issues arise. The book includes extensive endnotes and tables that cover relevant court decisions, FCC orders, and academic commentaries; a glossary of acronyms; a statutory addendum containing the most important provisions of federal telecommunications law; and two appendixes with information on more specialized topics. Supplementary materials for students are available at http://spot.colorado.edu/~weiserpj.

source: The MIT Press

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