[huridocs-tech] Interconnecting the Network of Networks

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Interconnecting the Network of Networks
Eli M. Noam

This book describes the transformation of telecommunications
from national network monopolies to a new system, the
network of networks, and the glue that holds it together,
interconnection. By their very nature, monopoly-owned
networks provided a small number of standardized, nationwide
services. Over the past two decades, however, new forces in
the world economy began to unravel this traditional system.
The driving force behind the change was the shift toward an
information-based economy. Especially for large
organizations, the price, control, security, and reliability
of telecommunications became variables requiring organized
attention. Thus, monopoly began to give way to the "network
of networks," the foundation of today's telecommunications
and Internet infrastructure.

Taking a broad, multidisciplinary perspective Eli Noam
discusses the importance and history of interconnection
policy, as well as recent policy reforms both within the
United States and around the globe. Other important topics
he discusses include interconnection prices, the unbundling
of interconnection, and the technology of interconnection.
He concludes with an examination of social and policy
issues, including the free flow of content, universal
service and privacy protection, and the future of
telecommunications.

Eli M. Noam is Professor of Finance and Economics at the
Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Director
of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262140721

6 x 9, 375 pp.
5 illus.

cloth ISBN 0-262-14072-1

Jud Wolfskill
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA  02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
wolfskil@mit.edu




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