Handbook of Telecommunications Economics: Technology Evolution and the Internet

front cover......Page 1
copyright......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 6
table of contents......Page 10
1 Technology Evolution and the Internet: Introduction......Page 21
2 Emerging Network Technologies......Page 49
3 Bandwagon Effects in Telecommunications......Page 98
4 Platform Competition in Telecommunications......Page 135
5 Broadband Communications......Page 172
6 Cable Television......Page 208
7 Wireless Communications......Page 258
8 The Economic Geography of Internet Infrastructure in the United States......Page 303
9 The Economics of the Internet Backbone......Page 389
10 Pricing Traffic on Interconnected Networks: Issues, Approaches, and Solutions......Page 429
11 Toward an Economics of the Domain Name System......Page 456
12 Bottlenecks and Bandwagons: Access Policy in the New Telecommunications......Page 501
13 European and American Approaches to Antitrust Remedies and the Institutional Design of Regulation in Telecommunications......Page 531
14 Telecommunications and Economic Development......Page 568
15 Institutional changes in Emerging Markets : Implications For the Telecommunications Sector......Page 633
index......Page 668