|
|
| Dimensions: 8.46'' x 5.6'' |
 |
| 119 pages |
|
|
AEI Press
(Washington)
|
|
| Publication Date: September 1999 |
|
|
| Paperback |
| ISBN: 0-8447-4094-2 |
| Price: $ 14.95 |
Add to Cart  |
|
| Examination Copies |
|
|
|
|
Congress intended the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to reduce regulatory costs and to improve consumer welfare in one of America's most rapidly growing and socially important industries. In this volume, fourteen distinguished state and federal regulators, telecommunications executives, public policy scholars, and legislators consider whether the first major overhaul of U.S. communications policy in more than sixty years is accomplishing its purposes.
Each influential leader focuses on two questions: Is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 broken? If so, how can we fix it? The diverse responses provide a valuable, succinct historial record for future policy research.
J. Gregory Sidak is a resident scholar at AEI.
Table of Contents
|
Foreword: Christopher DeMuth and J. Gregory Sidak
Contributors
- The Light at the End of the Tunny v. the Fog
- Panel Discussion
- Smoke Detection
- Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm
- The Telecommunications Act and Its Infancy
- The Race for Local Competition
- Damn the Torpedoes--Full Competition Ahead!
- Putting "People" in the Public Interest
- Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Federalism
- Out of the Courts and into the Market
- Consumers Wanted Competition, but So Far It's No Contest
|
