Competition in international telecommunications services

Article Abstract:

Expanding access to international telecommunications market through trade liberalization will benefit both US telecommunications service providers and US multinationals. The US has pursued both bilateral and multilateral efforts to increase access, reduce national controls over telecommunications and eliminate imbalances in the pricing of inbound and outbound services. Pursing both bilateral and multilateral agreements has yielded benefits, but competition policies and market forces make eventually provide the strongest incentives for other nations to liberalize their telecommunications markets.

International trade, Political aspects, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, international

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Technological change and doctrinal persistence: telecommunications reform in Congress and the Court

Article Abstract:

US Supreme Court and Congress have held on to certain assumptions and systems of classification in telecommunication law even as they claim to be discarding outdated assumptions in light of technological change. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not the revolutionary document its supporters claim it is. The adjustments made to the regulations and the industrial categories covered were minor. The Supreme Court's decision in Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC uses technological change primarily to serve jurisprudential objectives.

Cases, Cable television, Influence, Technological innovations

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The legal process and political economy of telecommunications reform

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Survey of the four stages of regulation of telephony suggests that continued tension between telecommunications law and the political influence of the industry is more likely than convergence. The four stages of telecommunications regulation are the state PUC era, the period of FCC deregulation, the rise of antitrust including the Bell divestiture, and the current age involving the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Each period saw the rise and decline of certain regulatory regimes as industry participants and new entrants contested the regulation.

Political activity, History

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