Economic issues at the Federal Communications Commission

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 337-356

  Crackower, Michael A ^a   Sarao, Renu ^a   Oliveira dos Santos, Antonio J ^a   Da Costa, Joan ^a   Zhang, Liyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broadband; Communications policy; Competition; Federal Communications Commission; Media ownership; Spectrum

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPETITION POLICY; MEDIA INDUSTRY;

EID: 0036916959     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021118714514     Document Type: Article

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