Contents : - Table of Contents by Author - International Engineering Consortium Background - Media Sponsors and Partners - University Affiliates - Section I: Executive Perspectives - Investing in America's Future: Problems and Prospects in Deploying Broadband - Fifteen Years on the Road to Quality - Moving Technology to the Land of Simplicity - Competition and Cooperation: The Story of a Merger - Implementing the Vision of the Telecom Act - Wireless Intelligent Networks: Gateway to the Growth of Enhanced Wireless Services - Internet Innovations: From Global Chats to Government Commitment - Everything on the Net - The Global Networked Business: A Model for Success - International Roaming: Easier Said than Done - Cable Modems, A Multiple System Operator's Perspective - The Effect of Internet Telephony on Business - Practical Versus Visionary Telecommunications Technology - Megatrends in the Wireless Industry - Overcoming the Barriers to Financial Transactions on the Internet - The Future of Mobile Computing - Digital Technology: A Collaborative Future - The Education Race - The Evolving Information Network and Its Impact on Management for the 21st Century - Cellular and PCS Competition - Mobile Internet: Mission Critical Information in Real Time - Media, Psychology, and the Socio-psychomedia Effect - Innovation: The Bridge to the Future - Network Quality of Service: What is Good Enough? - Mining Growth from Mature Markets: Opportunity across the Atlantic - Nokia's Emergence as a Telecommunications Global Power - The Best Defense Is a Good Offense - From Dialtone to Webtone: A Historic Turning Point - Broadband Access Takes to the Air: A Solution to Exploiting the Information Superhighway - A New World Order: Alternative Microsoft Windows Platforms - Buy Local, Go Global: A New Approach to the International Network - The New Face of Networking - What Do Users Really Want? - Using Deregulation and Competition to Impel Investment and Innovation - The Key to Local Competition: Public Policy Should Follow the Money - Global Wireless Communications: The New Era of Telecommunications - Intelligent Networking in Mobile Communications Systems - When the Detour Becomes the Highway: The Future of Alternative Routing - Creating the Engineer of Tomorrow - Past Lessons and Future Directions: The Context of the Current Telecommunications Era in Australia - Telecommuting: Drivers, Issues, and Challenges - Section II: Business, Marketing and Regulatory Issues - The Success of Emerging Telecommunications Carriers: Hype or Reality? - Privatization of Telecommunications: Global Perspectives and Initiatives - The Telric Tug of War - Market Shares for Competing Broadband Local Loop Technologies: A Framework and an Illustration - The WIPO Copyright Treaty: A New International Intellectual Property Framework for the Digital Age - Cross-Functional Business Modeling: Tool for Telecommunications Business Start- Ups C050=_086-Annual Review of Communications, Vol.51.pdf|000 - The Economics of Broadband Service - Managing Business Knowledge in Telecommunications - Barriers and Inhibitors to the Widespread Adoption of Internet Commerce - Transition to the New Local Loop: Required Capabilities C055=_086-Annual Review of Communications, Vol.51.pdf|000 - Change Management in an Enterprise Transformation Environment - Revving up the Communications Economic Engine: Household Services, Monthly Bills, and Barriers to Competition - We Have Found the "Killer App" and It's Killing Us - Promoting New Investment in Broadband Services - Networked Customer: The Customer Channel - Pacific Bell's Education First Initiative: A Whole Village Approach to Education Reform and Technology - (1)61 Days of Full Competition: Some Observations from the German Market - Winning Strategies for Growing and Sustaining Revenues in the Era of Convergence C064=_086-Annual Review of Communications, Vol.51.pdf|000 - Creating a Natural Learning Environment for the 21st Century: A Hybrid Model Using Both a Wired and Wireless Approach to Networking - The Performance Parity Principle - The Nervous System of the Information Society - Extending the PSTN: Voice Over IP Gateways - The Endless Spiral of Connectivity - Bectronic Commerce and Its Impact on the Sogo Shosha - Interconnection Issues in the Multimedia Environment - Section III: Network Technology and Applications - Optimizing ISDN to Give More Capacity at Less Cost - Deep-Fiber Solutions Enable Advanced Broadband Services - Optimizing the Infrastructure: Past, Present, and Future - A Broadband Network Architecture That Exploits Fiber-Optic Capabil- Index