Competition and Chaos U.S. Telecommunications since the 1996 Telecom Act

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Opening Telecom Markets: The 1996 Telecommunications Act

3. The First Eight Years under the New Law

4. Local Competition under the 1996 Act

5. Effect of the 1996 Act on Incumbent Local Companies

6. The Death of Distance and of the Long-Distance Carriers

7. The Rapid Growth of Wireless Telecommunications

8. The Broadband Revolution

9. Telecom Reform in Other Countries

10. A Look Back and a Look Forward

Appendix: Estimates of Bell Company Cumulative Capital Expenditures across States, 1996-2003

Notes

Index