Telecommunications: Network Strategies for Network Industries?

✍ Scribed by Werbach, Kevin

• Publisher: Wharton School Publishing; Pearson Education Inc
• Year: 2009;1900
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 21
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.Telecommunications is a networked business, yet it traditionally has resisted a network-based view in its strategies and business models. In this chapter, Kevin Werbach explores this paradox, contrasting the worldview of Monists such as AT&T, who see the infrastructure as inseparable from the network, and Dualists such as Google, who see the network and its applications as distinct from the underlying infrastructure. Not surprisingly, AT&T is a proponent of "tiered access" whereas Google argues for "network neutrality." Finally, Werbach examines how a more modular future might bridge the gap between those who seek to own and capitalize on the network and those who seek to expand it through more neutral offerings.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
Telecommunications: Network Strategies for Network Industries?......Page 2
Abstract......Page 4
A Network-Based View of Telecom......Page 5
Network Monists and Dualists: AT&T and Google......Page 8
The Modular Future......Page 14
References......Page 17