Don't Call--Just Send Me an E-mail: The New Competition for Traditional Telecom
by Barry M. Aarons on 01/27/2003
19 Pages
Synopsis:
The telecom industry has changed in ways not anticipated by the Telecom Act of 1996. A variety of innovative technologies such as voice over IP, e-mail, instant messaging, and wireless are competing with traditional telecom providers. These technologies are now commonly being substituted for traditional voice telephony, ensuring an abundance of competition in the telecom sector today and into the future, and making prior methods of measuring competition obsolete.
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