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The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV - Which Is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network?
The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV - Which Is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network?
Pages 546-552
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However, our switched and broadcast telecommunications industries have not been given the national goal and task of pursuing the network architecture and technologies that can provide such access to interactive media public utility services. At present, these communications industries are pursuing variations of the personal computer and TV set-top box network architecture models.
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However, the current chaos wail continue and public network engineers ivy} pursue inappropriate network architectures until our country proclaims such a goal with the proper laws to encourage, support, and regulate the enterprise. BACKGROUND Before 1993, the public policy issues surrounding the evolving NIT were mostly Emoted to industrial infighting.
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Whether or not this public utility service wail be made available to the public over the next 5 to 7 years wall depend on the creation of a new video dialtone policy, a policy Mat wall lead to fully integrated switched and broadcasted services on an equal access and common carrier basis. Such an NIT policy should influence the choice of an appropriate telecomputer network architecture by our nation's cable and telephone engineers.
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They should not be burdened with paying for a redundant infrastructure In the name of full-serv~ce networks' competition in a "natural monopoly" environment. To furler compound this issue, as the wireless industries of over-the-air, satellite, and microwave broadcasters also converge on the same "fully integrated network services" attractor over the next 5 to 7 years, the issue of "who are the public" as public utility subscribers accessing this evolving public network will become even more blurred.
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need to provide for dams with equal-access floodgates and pipes. LATAS, MSAS, RSAS, MTAS, AND BTAS: THE ISSUE OF TERRITORY Attracting the investment necessary to build this new public network as in any public utility infrastructure project, w'll likely require grants of clearly defined market territories to licensed operators.
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The public sector should set a similar goal that Will challenge the private sector to create a ubiquitous interactive multimedia common carrier system to serve the next two to four generations of Americans. That goal should include a public telecomputer network system harnessing the diversified and collective intelligence of our entire country for the public's convenience, interest, and necessity.
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The public sector may need to acknowledge Rat this form of public utility service, like all others before it, requires a "federal franchise" to operate as a regulated monopoly. Such a franchise wall be required In order to attract the necessary capital to build an information superpower system.
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