Tariffing in the new IP/ATM environment

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 283-295

  Walker, Dawson ^a   Kelly, Frank ^b   Solomon, Jonathan ^a  

^a Cable and Wireless PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; STANDARDS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP); PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATOR (PTO);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031147204     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(97)00016-5     Document Type: Article

References (11)

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2. NPRM 'Allocation of costs associated with local exchange carrier provision of video programming services' FCC Docket No. 96-112 adopted 10 May 1996.
3. Downs, SJ, Asynchronous Transfer Mode and public broadband networks - the policy opportunity. Telecommunications Policy 1994 18 (2) 114-136.
4. In this paper we concentrate predominantly on the principal facet of almost all telecommunication tariffs - the usage-based component. The access based component raises several political, regulatory and socio-economic issues - for example should broadband access, the consumer's link with the information continued on page 289 society, be priced on a uniform, nationally-or geographically-averaged rental basis, as is today's equivalent narrowband business and residential telephone line?
5. The latest standard documents further refine and redefine traffic and service classes. The four traffic classes listed above and their indicative tariff levels provide a rich enough range of Qualities of Service to form the essential structural elements.
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