Telecommunications

BEYOND FTS 2000: A PROGRAM FOR CHANGE by Bernard J. Bennington (Washington, DC: National Research Council, 1989—price not given, one volume main report, plus two appendices issued separately, ISBN not given, 219 pp. + 94 pp.+ 50 pp.) GROWING VULNERABILITY OF THE PUBLIC SWITCHED NETWORKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS (Washington, DC: National Research Council, 1989 price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 119 pp.) PERSPECTIVES ON THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY: THE CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE by James H. Alleman and Richard D. Emmerson (New York: Harper & Row/Ballinger, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-88730-376-5, 324 pp.) TELECOMMUNICA TIONS SYSTEMS AND SER VICES DIRECTORY edited by John Krol and Julie Winklepleck (Gale Research, Book Tower, Detroit, Ml 48226—price not given, ISBN 0-8103-2241-2,1,238 pp.) NEWTON'S TELECOM DICTIONARY: THE OFFICIAL GLOSSARY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS A CRONY MS, TERMS AND JARGON by Harry Newton (New York: Telecom Library, 1989—price not given, paper, no ISBN given, 650 pp.) DATA AND COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS: TERMS, DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS by Gilbert Held (New York: John Wiley, 1989 $39.95, ISBN 0-4710-92066-5, 254 pp.) E-MAIL by Stephen A. Caswell (Boston: Artech House, 1988—$48.00, ISBN 0-89006-303-6,250 pp.) deals with (as the cover says in its design) UNDERSTANDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Ronald R. Thomas (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1989—$24.95/17.95, ISBN 0-8306-9229-0 hard and 0-8306-3229-b soft, 243 pp.) CONSUMER INFORMATION IN TELEPHONE PRICING by Robert C. Rowe (December 1989,70 pp.) THE INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: SHOULD REGULATION DEPEND ON THE A BSENCE OF COMPETITION? by Roger D. Colton (December 1989, 50 pp.) IDENTIFYING CONSUMER CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE OF WORKABLE COMPETITION IN THE INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY by Roger D. Colton (December 1989,96 pp.) FUNDAMENTALS AND DISCRETION: A FIXING ALLOCATOR SEPARATIONS MODEL by Jay L. Silberberg (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy, November 1989—price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 187 pp.) FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEFINITION OF THE LOCAL CALLING AREA—AN ASSESSMENT OF TRENDS by Raymond Lawton and John Borrows (Columbus, OH: National Regulatory Research Institute, February 1990 price not given, paper, no ISBN given, 121 pp.) SECRETS OF INSTALLING A TELEPHONE SYSTEM: HOW TO AVOID THE PITFALLS AND LESSEN THE PAIN by Neil Sachnoff (New York: Telecom Library, 1989 $22.95, paper, no ISBN given, 149 pp.) GMP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, MAPPING AND POSITIONING NEWSLETTER (International Resource Development Inc., PO Box 1716, New Canaan, CT 06840 $325 per year, monthly, ISSN 1045-6732) VOICE PROCESSING MAGAZINE (PO Box 42382, Houston, TX 77242—$24.00, periodicity not indicated, ISSN 1042-0460) NRRI QUARTERLY BULLETIN(Columbus: National Regulatory Research Institute—$120, quarterly, ISSN 8756-632X) NEWBOOKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS FROMARTECH HOUSE (ArtechHouse, 685 Canton St., Norwood, MA 02062 free on request) CATALOG OF BOOKS 1990 (Telecom Library, 12 West 21st St., New York 10010 free on request).