The telecommunications industry is going through a technological revolution, involving a transition from multiple voice and data networks to integrated service networks using packet switching technologies. The paper describes a new framework (the IPCP framework) for capacity planning and costing...

This note addresses the conjecture that accounting separation and structural separation may be viewed as equivalent tools in regulation. Results from a model incorporating informational asymmetries about the network operator's costs are presented as a counter argument. Incentives to misrepresent...

Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme...