Content :
Preface
Acknowledgements
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 Telcom 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