Universal service: beyond established practice to possibility space

被引:10
作者
Jayakar, KP
Sawhney, H
机构
[1] Indiana Univ, Dept Telecommun, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[2] Penn State Univ, Coll Commun, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
关键词
universal access; digital divide; information poor;
D O I
10.1016/j.telpol.2003.07.003
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
A number of proposals have been put forward to reform universal service and make it compatible with the new competitive telecommunications environment in the United States. The diversity and apparent contradictions between these proposals makes the public policy dialog scattered and confused. This paper introduces the idea of a 'possibility space' delineated by two dimensions-intervention' and 'locus'-that lays out the contours of the emerging intellectual landscape by placing past practices as well as present proposals on the same conceptual plane. It suggests that the current approach to universal service reforms continues to be bound by the self-imposed limitations of a past regulatory era, and that a heterogeneous universal service policy is likely to be more suited to the new telecommunications environment. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:339 / 357
页数:19
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