Friday, April 9, 2010

The Future of Telecommunications Regulation

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The Future of Telecommunications Regulation

Eli M. Noam


Professor of Finance and Economics
Pennsylvania State University
April 26, 1999

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In discussing the future of telecommunications regulations one needs to ask first, there is a future? Or is it just the same present and past repeating themselves, like in the movies, just like the Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray was condemned to live the same day again and again? It’s been over three years now since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. And yet, it seems like the old days, everywhere in new variants one looks, one meets dear old friends. There’s Interconnection, for example, and over there, good old RBOC IXC, looking as depressed as ever. And here is good old state jurisdiction. Among such truly companions, does one dare to speak of the future as anything but a continuation of the past?

http://www.citi.columbia.edu/elinoam/articles/Naruc9.htm

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