The telecommunications world of the future is rapidly becoming the telecommunications reality of the present. Competition, deregulation, and new technologies are reshaping the industry. In this volume, widely respected policymakers, engineers, and industry experts forecast the future of telecommunications engineering and policy in the 1980's.
Contributions include: Telecommunications in the Nineties, Kamman and Sargent-Pollock. Competition and Deregulation in Telecommunications: The American Experience, Wiley. The FCC and Regulation, Webbink. Communications Satellites, Ahern and Greenberg. Spectrum Utilization in Broadcasting, Close. Trends in Public Broadcasting, Crotts and Rowland. The Future of the Newspaper Industry, Bledsoe. The Practice of Teleconferencing, Elton. Network Switching, Pitroda. EFTS: Requirements for Crytographic Authentication, Matyas and Meyer. Law and Policy in International Business, Eger. Rural Telecommunications in Developing Countries, Hudson.