List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Part I: From Competition to Monopoly: The Consolidation and Regulation of U.S. and Canadian Telecommunications, 1840-1946

Introduction to Part I

Telegraphs and Telephones: The Birth and Consolidation of the U.S. Telecommunications Industry, 1840-1936

Introduction

The Origins and Consolidation of the U.S. Telegraph Industry

The Origins and Consolidation of the U.S. Telephone Industry

The Early Regulation of U.S. Telecommunications

Conclusion

Telegraphs and Telephones: Building the Canadian Telecommunications Mosaic, 1846-1946

Introduction

The Origins and Consolidation of the Canadian Telegraph Industry

The Origins and Consolidation of the Canadian Telephone Industry

The Early Regulation of Canadian Telecommunications

Conclusion

The Regulation of the Telephone Industry as a Public Utility: History, Theory, and Practice

Introduction

Regulation and the State

The Social Control of Commerce: A Brief History of Economic Regulation

The Birth of the Modern Regulatory Agency: The Three Phases of Economic Regulation

Some Principles and Practices Underscoring the Economic Regulation of Telephony as a Public Utility

The Two Modes of Operation of the Regulatory Agency: Administrative-Adjudicative versus Policy Making

The Problem of Agency Independence: Contrasting U.S. and Canadian Models

Conclusion

Conclusion to Part I

Part II: From Monopoly to Competition: The Deregulation of U.S. and Canadian Telecommunications, 1946-1997

Introduction to Part II

The Power of Ideas: The Beginning of the End of Monopoly in Telecommunications

Introduction

The Problem with Regulation: Some Prominent Failures

What to Do about the Regulatory Agencies: The Reform Approach

Engineering Consent for Deregulation: Business Users and the Economic Approach

From Ideas to Public Policy: Deregulation Gains the Support of Politicians

Conclusion

Step-by-Step toward Deregulation in the United States

Introduction

The Consent Decree of 1956: AT&T Deflects a Second Antitrust Challenge to Its Monopoly

Hush-A-Phone and Carterfone: AT&T Loses Its Monopoly in the Provision of Terminal Equipment

Some Technical Notes on Technology and Services Relevant to the Long Distance Market

AT&Ts Long Distance Monopoly: A Matter of Regulatory Interpretation and Precedent

Step-by-Step toward Competition in Long Distance

A Liberalized Market for Satellite Communications

Regulated Monopoly and Antitrust Law: A Complex Dynamic

The Final Antitrust Challenge: AT&T Agrees to Divest Itself of Its Local Operating Companies

Conclusion

Local Network Competition and the Deregulation of Enhanced Services in the United States

Introduction

The Marriage of Computers and Telecommunications

The Regulatory Response to Hybrid Applications: Computer I

The Failure of Computer I Results in a New Approach: Computer II

Computer III and the MFJ

The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Linking Enhanced Services to Local Network Competition

Conclusion

The Canadian Approach to Deregulation

Introduction

The Problem of National Policy: A Uniquely Canadian Problem

The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Federal Jurisdiction: The Stage Is Set for a National Approach to Competition in Telecommunications

The Liberalization of Terminal Equipment

Competition in Long Distance: A Policy for Corporate Users

Canada's Domestic Satellite Communication Industry: The Telesat Dilemma

The Bell Canada Reorganization

The Privatization of Teleglobe

The Telecommunications Act of 1993

Conclusion

From Enhanced Services to Local Network Competition: The Canadian Approach

Introduction

The CRTC Authorizes Common Carrier Provision of Enhanced Service on a Temporary Basis

The CRTC Initiates a General Proceeding on Enhanced Services

ALEX: The Rise and Fall of a Bell Canada Enhanced Service

From Enhanced Services to Local Network Competition: A Policy for Telephone/Cable Convergence

The New Regulatory Framework, Part I: Rate Rebalancing, Cross-Subsidies, and the End of Rate-of-Return

The New Regulatory Framework, Part II: Interoperability, Interconnection, Co-location, Unbundling, and Number Portability

A Policy for Telephone/Cable Convergence

Conclusion

Conclusion to Part II

General Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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