• DocumentCode
    1255061
  • Title

    The Internet: from here to ubiquity

  • Author

    Hundt, Reed

  • Author_Institution
    Commun. Comm., USA
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    10/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    122
  • Lastpage
    124
  • Abstract
    Gives an analysis of and recommendations for the future of the Internet. We need a fully developed Internet to give us competition, deregulation, economic growth, social change, high productivity and new, record sales of hardware and software. The author wants to see the Internet grow everywhere in the USA, with access for poor and rich, seniors and children, English and non-English speakers alike. He also wants to see the Internet provide a key answer to the problem of competition in the local telephone markets
  • Keywords
    Internet; government policies; politics; socio-economic effects; technological forecasting; Internet; USA; access; competition; deregulation; economic growth; future; hardware sales; local telephone markets; productivity; social change; software sales; ubiquity; Bandwidth; Circuits; Communication switching; Delay; FCC; Internet; Law; Monopoly; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/2.625342
  • Filename
    625342