Choosing New Telecommunications Technologies: Tradeoffs between Conflicting Goals

Abstract

Depending on how strongly a firm, sector, regulatory agency, or nation values certain objectives, its choice of new telecommunications technologies may differ accordingly. If we can understand how tradeoffs are made between conflicting goals, by different groups, then we may begin to understand, predict, and perhaps some day control the rate and nature of technological change and the resulting mix of telecommunications technologies. In this paper, we consider six primary telecommunications goals: (1) economic efficiency, (2) security and privacy, (3) reliability and quality of service, (4) industrial stability, (5) international comity, and (6) technological innovation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA111156

Entities

People

  • Patricia M. Dinneen

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Bandwidth
  • Cables
  • Commerce
  • Communication Systems
  • Digital Communications
  • Economic Security
  • Frequency
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Optical Fibers
  • Radio Communications
  • Satellite Communications
  • Security
  • Space Systems
  • Underwater Cables
  • United States

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union