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A Phone in Every Village: Taking Telecom to Rural India
Taneja, Abhinav
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Reviews India's telecom policy and discusses guidelines and drivers for developing telecom infrastructure in India's rural areas. The author also makes recommendations for private sector investment and highlights some of the relevant technologies for telecom infrastructure build-out.

Packet Plutocracy, Data Democracy, and the Bureaucracy
Wohlstetter, John C.
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This article examines FCC policy concerning access to advanced services that risks perpetuating a plutocracy of high-end users while delaying diffusion to the mass marketplace. John discusses how Sections 254 and 706 of the Telecom Act could potentially work at cross-purposes with each other, how the FCC interprets the interplay between these two sections, and whether this interplay could advance or delay rapid modernization of the public switched telephone network.

Packet Policies: Petabits, Photons, Phonemes, and the Feds
Wohlstetter, John C.
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The author provides a candid look at FCC policy-making rules on incumbent LEC interconnection, availability of unbundled network elements, and universal access. He starts the discussion with a review of packet networks, then addresses the potential harm to ISP interests that may arise from these FCC rules. Finally, he suggests how proper regulation of packet networks can help the Internet flourish.

Perspectives on Broadband Network Technologies and Applications
Perey, Christine
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The author reviews three initiatives currently underway in the San Francisco Bay Area to test broadband networked multimedia technologies and products. She gives us an overview of each project and interviews some of the people involved for their perspectives and insights.

Planning Tools for Informed Decisions: Technical Trend Analysis
Vanston, John H. , Ph.D.
Vanston, Lawrence K. , Ph.D.
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The authors begin a series of articles on the role of technology forecasting (TF) in effective decision making. Each article will examine different TF techniques, methods for employing the results of forecasts, and suggestions for integrating TF activities into corporate activities.

Positioning the Electric Utility to Build Information Infrastructure
Rivkin, Steven R. , Esq.
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The author discusses the unique position of electric utilities to build a broadband network with capacity to support both utility and non-utility applications, such as telecommunications and information services.

Privacy in Telecommunications: Markets, Rights, and Regulations, Part I
Noam, Eli M. , Ph.D.
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In this first of a three-part series, the author reviews the issues of privacy in telecommunications along with some of the new and potential problems resulting from new communication and information technologies.

Privacy in Telecommunications: Markets, Rights, and Regulations, Part II
Noam, Eli M. , Ph.D.
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In the second installment of "Privacy in Telecommunications," the author discusses statutory and regulatory approaches to privacy problems.

Privacy in Telecommunications: Markets, Rights, and Regulations, Part III
Noam, Eli M. , Ph.D.
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In this third and final installment of "Privacy in Telecommunications," the author discusses markets in privacy, including a discussion of approaches to ensure privacy.

The Passive Audience for Interactive Technology
Grant, August E. , Ph.D.
Meadows, Jennifer Harman
Handy, Susan L. , Ph.D.
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The authors explore the implications of people who watch and/or buy from television shopping services. They take the research a step further and discuss the implications of the "passive consumer" for almost any emerging interactive technology.

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