• Research on telecommunications strategy and policy undertaken by faculty and graduate students at UC Berkeley and other universities that have been affiliated with CRTP.
• Occasional workshops and conferences on telecommunications at UC Berkeley and also hosted by affiliated universities. These meetings draw high level representatives from federal and state governments, academic institutions, and private industry.
• A working paper series on telecommunications policy and strategy that is distributed to the academic, policy, and corporate communities directly and is also available for downloading at CRTP's web site.
• Publication of Center research in special issues on telecommunications policy and strategy of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC).
• Occasional CRTP guest speakers and visitors who make presentations to students and faculty at various seminars and classes.

The fourth annual CRTP conference, "Promoting Investment in the Digital Infrastructure," was held at the University of Michigan Business School in June 1998. The conference drew a distinguished group of academic, industry and government speakers. The Center published its third annual ICC telecommunications issue in 1997. The issue contained papers presented at CRTP's third annual conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in June 1997. The Center's fourth annual telecommunications conference at the University of Michigan in June 1998 will be published in January 1999 as its fourth annual ICC issue edited by Brad Killaly and Will Mitchell of the University of Michigan. Articles in this issue include:

• Debra Aron, Ken Dunmore and Frank Pampush, "Worldwide Wait? How the Telecom Act's Unbundling Requirements Slow the Development of the Network Infrastructure."
• Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell, "The Role of Acquisitions in Reshaping Business Capabilities in the International Telecommunications Industry."
• Susan Garrod, "Strategic Networked Information Technology Applications: Empirical Results of Competitive Behavior."
• James R. Green and David J. Teece, "Four Approaches to Telecommunications Deregulation and Competition: The U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
• Anuradha Nagarajan, "ITS Standards in the Context of the Transportation and Telecommunication Infrastructure."
• Anuradha Nagarajan, "ITS Standards in the Context of the Transportation and Telecommunication Infrastructure."

During 1997-98 CRTP provided financial support for several Ph.D. students at U.C. Berkeley to conduct their dissertation research in the area of telecommunications policy. These included Haas Business School students Guy Holbum, Patrick Moreton, and Bennet Zelner, and Dept of Economics students Karyen Chu, Erik Heitfield, Richard Martines and Mark Stehr. These research projects were supervised by Prof.s Joseph V. Farrell, Pablo T. Spiller, Hal R. Varian, Pravin Varaiya and Glenn A. Woroch,