Lubricious transfer: multisite performance on the Internet.
Connecting ... Five minutes to curtain. The stage manager's control booth looks like a scene out of Apollo 13. Research assistants, board operators, and network technicians stare intensely at cameras, computers, and television monitors. I check the status of our network connection. It has been unusually slow...

Deregulation and market concentration: an analysis of post-1996 consolidations.
I. THE ISSUE II. THE CHANGING INDUSTRY STRUCTURE III. EMPIRICAL FINDINGS A. Vertical Concentration. B. Local Concentration IV. INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS V. OUTLOOK I. THE ISSUE For several decades, U.S. policy in telecommunications and electronic mass media focused on the encouragement of competition. This policy,...

News in the corporate age: in the discussions of "public media" where is the public?
Shortly after we inaugurate the next president, the 75-year history of over-the-air broadcasting, as created by the 1934 Communications Act, will come to an end--to be replaced by what? Should faith communities, already fighting war, poverty, and global warming, take up the task of answering this question? ...

A proposed antitrust approach to high technology competition.
INTRODUCTION This Article discusses the most critical antitrust issue of the new century: how to regulate competition in Internet, medical, media, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, and other high technology markets. The form of such regulation will have implications beyond the high technology sector. During the 1990s,...

The 1996 Telecommunications Act: ten years later.
Like all legislation, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("1996 Act") was justified on the basis of the public interest. And as in many legislative processes, the public interest was interpreted by each stakeholder group as coterminous with its own, while think tanks and policy advocates jockeyed for position, sniped...

Interview with Eli Noam: professor of economics and finance, director of Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), graduate school of business, Columbia University, New York.
Yves GASSOT: I am delighted that you have consented to do this interview. I would like to begin with the current situation in the United States. We, in Europe, have noted the various attempts to rewrite the Telecommunications Act. The pressure to rewrite seems more intense. We also noted...

Miami exec forms Cuba investment committee.
Hugo Cancio, President and CEO of Fuego Entertainment Inc., a public media and entertainment company, announced Nov. 20 he'll establish an exploratory group called the U.S.-Cuban Investment Committee to help in the reconstruction of his native Cuba and play a key role in its transformation to a free economy....

Service bundling and the role of access charge in the broadband internet service market (*).
Abstract: Using the classical Hotelling model, this paper analyzes the incentive for a CATV service provider to bundle broadband internet services when entering the broadband internet services market. In addition, the effect of such service bundling by an entrant on the market incumbent with ownership over existing bottleneck facilities...

Cable's menu isn't always appetizing.
Cable TV companies across the country consistently brag about their 500 channels of program fare, while most subscribers wish they could reduce the options to the several dozen channels they might actually watch. Is it really necessary to have all those jewelry auction, televangelist and hip-hop music...

Interview with Prof. Eli Noam.
Professor of Economics and Finance, Director of Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York Yves GASSOT: I am delighted that you have consented to do this interview. I would like to begin with the current situation in the United States. We,...