Telecommunications Policy

Abstract

AFTER THE BREAK-UP: ASSESSING THE NEW POST-AT&T DIVESTITURE ERA edited by Barry G. Cole (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991—$55.00, ISBN 0-231-07322-4, 480 pp.) INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS: THE ECONOMICS OF ADVANCED PUBLIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS by Bruce L. Egan (Boston: Artech House, 1991—price not given, ISBN 0-89006-474-1, 188 pp.) AFTER DIVESTITURE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION by Paul Eric Teske (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990—$44.50/14.95, ISBN 0-7914-0328-8 hard, 0-7914-0324-6 paper, 162 pp.) TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VALUES AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST edited by Sven B. Lundstedt (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1990—$55.00/27.50, ISBN 0-89391-693-5 hard, 0-89391-733-5 paper, 320 pp.) RURAL AMERICA IN THE INFORMATION AGE: TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT by Edwin B. Parker, Heather E. Hudson, Don A. Diliman, and Andrew D. Roscoe (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989—$13.75, paper, ISBN 0-8191-7494-7, 170 pp.) TELEPHONE COMPANY AND CABLE TELEVISION COMPETITION: KEY TECHNICAL ECONOMIC, LEGAL AND POLICY ISSUES edited by Stuart N. Brotman (Boston: Artech House, 1990—$60.00, paper, ISBN 0-89006-461-X, 509 pp.) AN EXAMINATION OF THE APPLICATION OF PEAK METHODS TO ALLOCATE A REVENUE REQUIREMENT FOR INTRASTATE TELEPHONE SERVICES by William Pollard (NRRI 89-18, May 1990, 367 pp.) DOMINANCE, NON-DOMINANCE, AND CONTESTABILITY IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKET: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT by William Shepherd and Robert J. Graniere (NRRI 89-17, March 1990, 148 pp.) ALTERNATIVES TO RATE BASE/RATE OF RETURN REGULATION OF LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS: AN ANALYSIS OF STAKEHOLDER POSITIONS by Jeffrey A. Masoner (P-90-3, May 1990,356 pp.) TELEPHONE TRANSACTION-GENERATED INFORMATION: RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS by Thomas E. McManus (P-90-5, May 1990,100 pp.) ALTERNATIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COSTING METHODS: FUNDAMENTALS AND DISCRETION—A FIXED ALLOCATOR SEPARATIONS MODEL by Jay L. Silverberg (P-89-6, November 1989,187 pp.) INCIDENTAL PAPER: ROGUE COMPUTER PROGRAMS—VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, AND TIME BOMBS: PRANK, PROWESS, PROTECTION OR PROSECUTION? by Anne Branscomb (1-89-3, September 1989, 83 pp.) RESIDENTIAL BROADBAND SERVICES BY TELEPHONE COMPANIES? TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AND PUBLIC POLICY by Leland L. Johnson, and David P. Reed (Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp. R-3906-MF/RL, June 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8330-1064-6,104 pp.) CROSSROADS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1990—price not given, paper, no ISBN given,72 pp.) INDUSTRY BASICS: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY, STRUCTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY (Washington, DC: North American Telecommunications Association, 1989—$33.00, paper, ISBN 0-940919-08-7,94 pp.)