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Telecommunications: Network Strategies for Network Industries?
Kevin D. Werbach University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Legal Studies Department NETWORK-BASED STRATEGIES AND COMPETENCIES, Wharton School Publishing, Forthcoming Abstract: If there is a sector of the economy that should embrace network-based thinking, it is telecommunications. Surprisingly, the opposite is the case. The leading firms building telecommunications and Internet infrastructure increasingly emphasize consolidation, hierarchy, and exclusive control, rather than collaboration and decentralization. Regulators are dismantling legal frameworks that once promoted openness and interconnection, in favor of misguided efforts to incent proprietary investment. And many scholars, even those challenging the current drift of policy and business models, embrace a static worldview that is a relic of earlier eras. Network-based strategies are thus hard to find today in the so-called "network industries," even as such ideas flourish in adjacent digital information markets. This chapter explores the origins of this paradox, describes its manifestations in the legal and business environment, and traces a more hopeful future.
Keywords: telecommunications, Internet, network Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: March 05, 2008 ; Last revised: March 05, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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