Are telecommunications facilities 'infrastructure?' if they are, so what?

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-179

  Crandall, Robert W ^a  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrastructure; Regulation; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS;

EID: 0031406720     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-0462(96)02152-7     Document Type: Article

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