Circumventing the centre: The realities of creating a telecommunications infrastructure in the USA

Harmeet Sawhney

Telecommunications Policy, vol. 17, issue 7, 504-516

Abstract: In the public policy discourse on telecommunications infrastructure there is a constant lament about the fragmentation and chaos within the regulatory environment in the USA. It is often sugested that 'top-down' network models are far more efficient than the 'bottom-up' approach which characterizes US domestic telecommunications. The recent successes of more centralized countries lend support to this perspective. However, the analysis presented in this paper suggests that the USA should refrain from copying the success formulae of other countries. The US cultural context is very different from other countries' and therefore there is a need to develop an indigenous strategy which is more suitable for a markedly polycentric environment.

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