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Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection And Monopoly In The Making Of The American Telephone System, Milton Mueller Jan 2013

Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection And Monopoly In The Making Of The American Telephone System, Milton Mueller

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This book, based on years of archival research at the AT&T/Bell Labs in the aftermath of the divestiture, was originally published in 1997 as part of the MIT Press/AEI Series on Telecommunications Regulation. Acclaimed by reviewers such as Lawrence Lessig as “extraordinary” and “a crisply written mix of history and clear theory,” the small press run was sold out by 2002. Nevertheless, every year I encountered people who asked where they could get copies. The AEI series had long come to an end, its funds gone and its editorial team disbanded, making a new press run all but impossible.

It …