Choosing New Telecommunications Technologies: Tradeoffs between Conflicting Goals

摘要

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.