Managing Internet-driven change in international telecommunications / Rob Frieden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Managing Internet-Driven Change in International Telecommunications; Contents vii; Introduction xxi; 1 Telecommunications in an Internet-Driven Information Economy 1; 1.1 Overview 1; 1.2 An Interdisciplinary Undertaking 3; 1.3 Appreciating Different Cultures 12; 1.4 Clash of the Phoneheads and the Netheads 12; 1.5 Challenges to Incumbents 13; 1.6 Challenges to Market Entrants 14; 1.7 Managing Change 15; 2 What Is Driving Change? 17; 2.1 The Digital Impreative: Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law 17; 2.2 Internet-Driven Telecommunications Development 18; 2.3 Uncovering Market Niches 26 2.4 Liberalization Bias 282.5 Migration to an Information Economy 29; 2.6 Wireless Ascendancy 29; 2.7 Electronic Commerce 32; 2.8 Unfinished Business 38; 2.9 Change 39; 3 The Old World Order: Past and Present Models in International Telecommunications 41; 3.1 The Rule of Multiple C's 41; 3.2 The PTT Industrial and Regulatory Model 54; 3.3 Revenge of the Phoneheads: The Power of Incumbents 58; 3.4 Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks 62; 4 The New World Order: Developing Models in International Telecommunications and Information Processing 63; 4.1 The Challenge to Sovereignty and Control 63 4.2 New Models and Descriptive Terms 654.3 More Descriptive ""C"" Terms 66; 4.4 Competition Now! 74; 4.5 Convergence 83; 4.6 The New Mandate: Privatize, Liberalize, Deregulate, and Globalize 83; 4.7 Revamping Regulatory Oversight 87; 4.8 Sustaining Competition and Protecting Consumers 90; 4.9 Gray Market Ascendancy: Entrepreneurs Push the Legal Envelope 93; 5 The Technologies in Modern International Telecommunications 97; 5.1 Satellites 99; 5.2 Submarine Cables 123; 5.3 Enabling Technologies 124; 5.4 The Internet 127; 5.5 What the Internet Changes 131; 5.6 The Promise of E-Commerce 134 5.7 Netheads and Nethead Companies: Major Forces 1365.8 Basic Telecommunications: A Low-Margin, Commodity Business 136; 5.9 The Rush to Merge and Provide Global, One-Stop Shopping 137; 5.10 E-Commerce: Shifting the Locus of Control to Consumers 138; 5.11 Revenge of the Phoneheads: What the Internet Does Not Change 139; 5.12 A Tale of Two Telcos 142; 5.13 Greater Opportunities for Consumers to Save Money --
and to Lose It 145; 5.14 The Future 146; 6 Players in International Telecommunications Policy Making 149; 6.1 Why Nations Cooperate on Telecommunications Policy Matters 151 6.2 Why Nations Do Not Readily Cooperate on Information-Processing Policy Matters 1536.3 A Brief History of the ITU 154; 6.4 Spectrum Management by the ITU 159; 6.5 The Spectrum Auction Alternative 175; 6.6 Managing the Satellite Orbital Arc 178; 6.7 Standard Setting 186; 6.8 Developing Issues 198; 6.9 Reforming the ITU 207; 6.10 Internet Standard Setting and Governance 211; 7 Players in International Telecommunications Trade Policy Making 215; 7.1 Trade in Telecommunications Network Services; 7.2 Basic Trade Principles 223; 7.3 Limits to What a Trade Forum Can Accomplish 227