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The telecom policy debate: What is at stake?

The telecom policy debate: What is at stake?. Comm 137/237 Oct 2 nd , 2002. The New Information Infrastructure. " S uperhighway " who will build it? what will fill the pipe? who will pay for it? "C onvergence " C onvergence creates discontinuities T echnology U sage I nfrastructure

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The telecom policy debate: What is at stake?

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  1. The telecom policy debate:What is at stake? Comm 137/237 Oct 2nd, 2002

  2. The New Information Infrastructure • "Superhighway" • who will build it? • what will fill the pipe? • who will pay for it? • "Convergence" • Convergence creates discontinuities • Technology • Usage • Infrastructure • Policy

  3. Technologicaldiscontinuities • It’s all bits, ubiquitous logic, plentiful bandwidth • Not smooth upgrade, but quantum leaps • Many possible evolutions • Digital: network management and control becomes flexibly separable from ownership

  4. Discontinuous Usage • Traffic explosion • Traffic drivers: Data + New communication patterns - NOT extrapolation of traditional traffic - What’s the new traffic? • computer to computer • different patterns, different characteristics • Users drive network evolution

  5. What is the infrastructure? • A Network of networks • From competition within networks, to competition from outside • From dedicated modes to multi-modal

  6. Policy discontinuities • Policy traditionally fragmented • Clash of 3 fundamentally different regimes • telecom: common carriage • press: 1st amendment • broadcast/CATV: licensing • Favor competition as the solution

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