Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Ingo Vogelsang, Martin Cave, S. Majumdar, I. Vogelsang, M. Cave, Sumit Kumar Majumdar

Hardbound. The last two decades have seen exceptionally fast rates of change in every aspect of the telecommunications industry. These include major technology changes and the convergence of the broadcasting, information technology and telecommunicationsindustries. The earlier view of telecommunications as a natural monopoly has now given way to one in which almost all parts are susceptible to some form of competition. Simultaneously, market structure has changed through the replacement of the former monopolistic, vertically integrated telephone companies by a variety of competing firms. These developments have been accompanied by major legislative and regulatory developments, including the passing in the United States of the 1996 Telecommunications Actand the introduction of a large number of new laws and regulations in Europe and elsewhere. The same changes have seen a massive expansion of independent regulatory agencies. This volume provides det Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Handbook of Telecommunications Economics (Martin Cave, S. Majumdar, I. Vogelsang, M. Cave, Sumit Kumar Majumdar, Ingo Vogelsang)