Standards in wireless telephone networks

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 325-332

  Gandal, Neil ^a,b   Salant, David ^c   Waverman, Leonard ^c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING   (United States)

^d LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PACKET NETWORKS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATA SERVICES;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038756100     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(03)00026-0     Document Type: Article

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