Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications

by Robert W. Crandall

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The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone companies with a wide array of new market opportunities. Unfortunately,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815716079
• ISBN13: 9780815716075
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"