Product Description: A survival guide for the telecommunications managers and technical personnel, this text analyzes the impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and offers advice for industry giants as well as newcomers to the market. The author discusses industry trends in service and technology before dissecting the Telecom Act and its impact on the market place...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This concise and thought-provoking book provides a workable blueprint for achieving one of our age's most ambitious--and most daunting--challenges--the construction of a fully interactive public data network. Written in accessible language, it describes in detail the network needed to truly make the information infrastructure a reality, and suggests how it could be built...read more