Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation

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ISBN: 9780805824568 | 0805824561
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/1999

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This volume presents the current state of universal service policy from governmental, academic, and industry perspectives. It will be of great use to those involved in communication policy, including lawyers, economists, policy makers and scholars.

List of Contributors

Preface

xiii

I: INTRODUCTION

(12)

Conceptualizing Universal Service: Definitions, Context, Social Process, and Politics

(10)

Barbara A. Cherry

Steven S. Wildman

II: FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYZING UNIVERSAL SERVICE

(54)

Universal Service: Migration of Metaphors

(24)

Harmeet Sawhney

Kirshna Jayakar

Unilateral and Bilateral Rules: A Framework for Increasing Competition While Meeting Universal Service Goals in Telecommunications

(20)

Barbara A. Cherry

Steven S. Wildman

Questions for Outlining a Universal Service Policy

(8)

Marlin Blizinski

III: SOCIETAL ROLE AND IMPLICATIONS OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE

(42)

Rethinking Universal Service: What's on the Menu?

(16)

Marlin Blizinski

Jorge Reina Schement

The Social Architecture of Community Computing

(14)

Allen W. Batteau

Universal Access to Infrastructure and Information

(10)

Allen S. Hammond, IV

IV: PAYING FOR UNIVERSAL SERVICE

109

(56)

Overview of Universal Service

111

(24)

Carol Weinhaus

Robert K. Lock

Harry Albright

Mark Jamison

Fred Hedemark

Dan Harns

Sandra Makeeff

Recovering Access Costs: The Debate

135

(24)

David Gabel

Universal Service: A Stakeholder Response

159

(6)

James C. Smith

V: EMBARKING ON A NEW UNIVERSAL SERVICE POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

165

(48)

Review of Federal Universal Service Policy in the United States

167

(12)

Barbara A. Cherry

Steven S. Wildman

Some Legal Puzzles in the 1996 Statutory Provisions for Universal Telecommunications Services

179

(10)

Warren G. Lavey

Universal Service and the National Information Infrastructure (NII): Making the Grade on the Information Superhighway

189

(24)

James McGonnaughey

VI: THE ROLE OF THE STATES

213

(38)

The New State Role in Ensuring Universal Telecommunications Services

215

(22)

Thomas W. Bonnett

Breaking the Bottleneck and Sharing the Wealth: A Perspective on Universal Service Policy in an Era of Local Competition

237

(14)

Robert K. Lock, Jr.

Author Index

251

(6)

Subject Index

257

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Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation

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