info: Volume 3 Issue 2

Domains without frontiers

Milton Mueller

Delineates the Clinton administration’s handing over licensing control of the Internet domain names and IP addresses from federal government to a non‐profit making organization…

The ENUM golden tree: the quest for a universal communications identifier

Anthony Rutkowski

Discusses the notion of a universal communications identifier and the “tree root” of this – the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) of the USA. States this may have…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/14636680110803012. When citing the…

Opening the broadband cable market: a new Kingsbury commitment

Hugh Carter Donahue

Profiles broadband communications, wondering whether AOL Time Warner will keep its side of the bargain that promises to provide a universal telephone service, in exchange for…

Dances with wolves? China’s integration into digital capitalism

Yuezhi Zhao, Dan Schiller

Wonders whether, owing to severely restricted access, China’s government policy towards digital communications will remain in a constant state of flux – or will it gain economic…

GMPCS at the crossroads: the fallout from 3G

Tare C. Brisibe

Highlights IMT‐2000 and discusses communications satellites which have received a shot in the arm from new international standards protocols, but on the ground 3G rollout promises…

Local loop unbundling: flaws of the cost proxy model

Christian M. Dippon

Asks whether the FCC is using the wrong cost model to try to balance incumbents of the US Telecommunications Act with new operators, to make things equal for all. Concludes that…