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Ideas Of The Marketplace: A Guide To The 1996 Telecommunications Act,, Michael I. Meyerson
Ideas Of The Marketplace: A Guide To The 1996 Telecommunications Act,, Michael I. Meyerson
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 represented an enormous experimental step towards deregulating the telecommunications marketplace while opening it up to competition. With an eye towards breaking up the telecommunications monopolies held by local telephone service providers, the Act created regulations that forced local carriers to share their market and their resources with other telecommunications providers. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 itself is extremely complex. This article is a "guided tour" through the major provisions of the Act.
The first step in understanding the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is to understand how the telecommunications industry operates. Part two of this article …