info: Volume 6 Issue 2

W‐LAN hotspots: short‐term pain but a brighter long‐term view

William Webb

There has been much discussion about W‐LAN hotspots and the role they might play in communication systems. Over the last year, the number of hotspots around the world has grown…

Is the case for structural separation of the local loop persuasive?

Patrick Xavier, Dimitri Ypsilanti

This paper responds to continuing arguments about the necessity for structural separation of the telecommunications local loop. It attempts to strike a balance by stressing that…

Generic reference model for the analysis of relevant communications markets: fundamental competition concepts

Wolfgang Briglauer

Under the new European regulatory communications framework coming into effect in summer 2003, market analyses will be subject to a different and much wider analytical scope…

Impact of location‐aware services on the privacy/security balance

Carlos Rodríguez Casal

This article is based on a report to the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament by IPTS, addressing increasing concerns…

Television station ownership characteristics and local news and public affairs programming: an expanded analysis of FCC data

Philip M. Napoli

This paper examines the relationship between television station ownership characteristics and local news and public affairs programming through an expanded analysis of data from…

Special access service and its regulation in the United States

Noel D. Uri, Paul R. Zimmerman

In 1999 the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order granting complete deregulation of the rates for special access service for specific metropolitan statistical areas…

Is bankruptcy the end or the beginning?

Peter Curwen