Shifting From a Circuit to Packet World. The Emergence of the Digital Industry and Lessons from a Century Ago

Eric de Fontenay

The paper examines trends emerging in the telecommunications industry by considering the business and network strategies of a new breed of entrants such as Qwest and Level 3's, referred to as bandwidth carriers, and considers the assumptions made by bandwidth carriers and the likely implications on the delivery of services.

Shifting from a Circuit to Packet World the Emergence of the Digital Industry and Lessons from a Century Ago

Eric de Fontenay, Economic and Regulatory Consultant, de Fontenay, Savin & Kiss, United States.

INTRODUCTION

The Internet has been heralded as the source of profound change within the telecommunications industry by lying at the root of present paradigm shifts in the industry. It is fundamentally reshaping the technological base of the industry from separate media platforms to an integrated platform able to support all forms of media, including voice, data and video. At the same time, it has...

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