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An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...
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In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print...
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“The swift emergence of a global “information society” is changing the way people live, learn, work and relate. An explosion in the free flow of information and ideas has brought knowledge and its myriad applications to many millions of people, creating new choices and opportunities in...
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how organizations can UNLEASH the power of internet and e-business and can reinvent themselves. The organization cannot …
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Estonian adult population does not use the Internet. The analysis, carried out by the research company Emor and PRAXIS Center … for Policy Studies, looked thoroughly at the reasons and motivation for not using the Internet of this particular … one third of the current non-users understand the opportunities offered by the Internet and want to take advantage of them …
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In this paper, we have empirically analyzed the factors that lead to longer business relationships in the logistics … capital, such as skill in workers and know-how, is important to improve efficiency of the whole logistics system. At the same … volatility of demand tend to rely on transportation services procured from spot logistics markets with a shorter contract term …
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jumped after deregulation, and new types of complaints such as unauthorized switching of service (“slamming”) arose. Failure … existing customer base. Higher prices for low- income consumers: Since deregulation begain in 1990, there has been a marked …
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both traditional cost minimization models and newer models that reflect industry deregulation processes. The oldest …
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The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...
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The paper examines the economic and regulatory factors that led to an explosion in the wholesale power prices, supply shortages, and utility insolvencies in California’s electricity sector. A necessary first step in determining the lessons learned from the California electricity crisis is a...
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