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Author Crandall, Robert W.

Title Competition and chaos : U.S. telecommunications since the 1996 Telecom Act / Robert W. Crandall.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  HE7781 .C667 2005    Available  ---
Description ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Examines how the 1996 Telecommunications Act and its antecedents have affected the major telecommunications providers and analyzes the act's effect on economic welfare in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- Opening telecom markets : the 1996 Telecommunications Act -- The first eight years under the new law -- Local competition under the 1996 act -- Effect of the 1996 act on incumbent local companies -- The death of distance and of the long-distance carriers -- The rapid growth of wireless telecommunications -- The broadband revolution -- Telecom reform in other countries -- A look back and a look forward -- Appendix. estimates of Bell Company cumulative capital expenditures across states, 1996?-2003.
Subject Telecommunication policy -- United States.
Telecommunication policy.
United States.
Telecommunication -- Deregulation -- United States.
Telecommunication -- Deregulation.
Competition -- Government policy -- United States.
Competition -- Government policy.
Telecommunication -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Telecommunication -- Law and legislation.
United States. Telecommunications Act of 1996.
ISBN 0815716176 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780815716174