Changing from the silo model to the horizontal layers model in public policy regulations: the implications and potential for the telecommunications industry

Spencer Logan, Lemuella C.

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Changing from the silo model to the horizontal layers model in public policy regulations: the implications and potential for the telecommunications industry

dc.contributor.advisor	Havick, John J.
dc.contributor.author	Spencer Logan, Lemuella C.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Bozeman, Barry
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Klein, Hans
dc.contributor.department	Public Policy
dc.date.accessioned	2006-04-25T20:45:43Z
dc.date.available	2006-04-25T20:45:43Z
dc.date.issued	2005-12
dc.description.abstract	The end of the Twentieth Century and the start of the Twenty First Century has been a tumultuous time for the Telecommunications Industry. Even as it moves forward to embrace the new technologies the Industry finds itself embroiled in issues of governance. The Industry finds itself in a dilemma since innovations increase at a rate faster than the laws can be changed and these render its existing laws and policies to be in some cases obsolete and inappropriate for the reality of the present. In the past, the United States of America has relied on vertically integrated top down laws and methods of regulating all the different parts in its Telecommunications Industry. These laws are contained in the different numbered Titles of this Countrys Legal Codes. Since the inception of these laws, emphasis was placed in creating and documenting policies structured by industry, sector and type of content. This form of regulation is usually referred to as the Silo Method. However, in recent years, especially in the regulation of the Telephony industry, the method of law and rule formulation moved from content regulation to one in which the technologies are getting regulated in what has been described as a Layers Method. This paper first considered whether the Silo Method of regulation is in actuality the same as using the Horizontal Layers method and showed that this is the case. Then it determined that Enhanced Services are the same as Basic Services and that Telecommunications Services are the same as Information services and showed that given that the pair sets as noted were the same, it went on to conclude that all these services were essentially the same. While studying to some detail the technologies of VoIP, the paper also showed that VoIP although an Internet technology is similar to traditional telephony, and is both a Telecommunications Service and Information Service based on the definition as given in the law as well as the technologies that are used and that as a result of this, the current regulatory environment for this service with regards to telephony is inconsistent. It concluded that Telecommunications policies though now adequate may need to be modified.	en
dc.description.degree	M.S.
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/9464
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en
dc.subject	Telecommunication/Internet Issues	en
dc.subject	Telecommunications regulations	en
dc.subject	Cable networks	en
dc.subject	Cellular networks	en
dc.subject	Common carriers	en
dc.subject	Competitive carriers	en
dc.subject	Computer inquiries	en
dc.subject	Convergence	en
dc.subject	Deregulation	en
dc.subject	Digital networks	en
dc.subject	FCC	en
dc.subject	Federal Communications Commission	en
dc.subject	Fiber optics	en
dc.subject	Gatekeepers	en
dc.subject	Gateways	en
dc.subject	H.323	en
dc.subject	Horizontal Layers Model	en
dc.subject	ICANN	en
dc.subject	ILECs	en
dc.subject	Information services	en
dc.subject	Intelligent Network Architecture	en
dc.subject	ISDN	en
dc.subject	LAN	en
dc.subject	LECs	en
dc.subject	Loops	en
dc.subject	LRN Call Flow	en
dc.subject	MAN	en
dc.subject	Network speed	en
dc.subject	Networks	en
dc.subject	NTIA	en
dc.subject	OSI Model	en
dc.subject	OSS	en
dc.subject	Packet networks	en
dc.subject	Packet switches	en
dc.subject	Policies	en
dc.subject	Protocols	en
dc.subject	PSTN Networks	en
dc.subject	PUCs	en
dc.subject	Regulation	en
dc.subject	SIP	en
dc.subject	Spam	en
dc.subject	SPY ACT	en
dc.subject	Switched networks	en
dc.subject	TC/IP Protocol	en
dc.subject	Telecommunications Act of 1996	en
dc.subject	Telecommunications regulations	en
dc.subject	Unbundled access	en
dc.subject	UNCTAD	en
dc.subject	UNICITRAL	en
dc.subject	Vertical Silo Model	en
dc.subject	VoIP	en
dc.subject	VPN	en
dc.subject	WAN	en
dc.subject	Wireless	en
dc.subject	Telecommunication Law and legislation
dc.subject.lcsh	Telecommunication Law and legislation	en_US
dc.title	Changing from the silo model to the horizontal layers model in public policy regulations: the implications and potential for the telecommunications industry	en
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dc.type.genre	Thesis
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local.contributor.corporatename	School of Public Policy
local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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