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An Unsung Success Story: A Forty-Year Retrospective On U.S. Communications Policy, Christopher S. Yoo Nov 2017

An Unsung Success Story: A Forty-Year Retrospective On U.S. Communications Policy, Christopher S. Yoo

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Looking backwards on the occasion of Telecommunications Policy’s fortieth anniversary reveals just how far U.S. communications policy has come. All of the major challenges of 1976, such as promoting competition in customer premises equipment, long distance, and television networking, have largely been overcome. Moreover, new issues that emerged later, such as competition in local telephone service and multichannel video program distribution, have also largely been solved. More often than not, the solution has been the result of structural changes that enhanced facilities-based competition rather than agency-imposed behavioral requirements. Moreover, close inspection reveals that in most cases, prodding by the courts …


Newsroom: Fcc's Sohn On Consumer Protection, Roger Williams University School Of Law Sep 2015

Newsroom: Fcc's Sohn On Consumer Protection, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Possible Paradigm Shifts In Broadband Policy, Christopher S. Yoo Jan 2014

Possible Paradigm Shifts In Broadband Policy, Christopher S. Yoo

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Debates over Internet policy tend to be framed by the way the Internet existed in the mid-1990s, when the Internet first became a mass-market phenomenon. At the risk of oversimplifying, the Internet was initially used by academics and tech-savvy early adopters to send email and browse the web over a personal computer connected to a telephone line via networks interconnected through in a limited way. Since then, the Internet has become much larger and more diverse in terms of users, applications, technologies, and business relationships. More recently, Internet growth has begun to slow both in terms of the number of …


Thoughts On The Sprint Acquisition., Michael Botein Jan 1999

Thoughts On The Sprint Acquisition., Michael Botein

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New Video Technologies In The United States: Regulatory And Intellectual Property Considerations, Michael Botein Jan 1985

New Video Technologies In The United States: Regulatory And Intellectual Property Considerations, Michael Botein

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Cable Television Franchising And The Antitrust Laws: A Preliminary Analysis Of Substantive Standards, Michael Botein Jan 1984

Cable Television Franchising And The Antitrust Laws: A Preliminary Analysis Of Substantive Standards, Michael Botein

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