Leveraging the EU regulatory framework to improve a layered policy model for US telecommunications markets

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 136-148

  Mindel, Joshua L ^a   Sicker, Douglas C ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Market; Policy; Technology; Telecommunications regulation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SURVEYS;

LAYERED MODEL; MARKET; SECTOR-SPECIFIC REGULATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

EID: 31944451198     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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