List of Contributors

Preface

I: INTRODUCTION

Conceptualizing Universal Service: Definitions, Context, Social Process, and Politics

Barbara A. Cherry

Steven S. Wildman

II: FRAMEWORKS FOR ANALYZING UNIVERSAL SERVICE

Universal Service: Migration of Metaphors

Harmeet Sawhney

Kirshna Jayakar

Unilateral and Bilateral Rules: A Framework for Increasing Competition While Meeting Universal Service Goals in Telecommunications

Barbara A. Cherry

Steven S. Wildman

Questions for Outlining a Universal Service Policy

Marlin Blizinski

III: SOCIETAL ROLE AND IMPLICATIONS OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE

Rethinking Universal Service: What's on the Menu?

Marlin Blizinski

Jorge Reina Schement

The Social Architecture of Community Computing

Allen W. Batteau

Universal Access to Infrastructure and Information

Allen S. Hammond, IV

IV: PAYING FOR UNIVERSAL SERVICE

Overview of Universal Service

Carol Weinhaus

Robert K. Lock

Harry Albright

Mark Jamison

Fred Hedemark

Dan Harns

Sandra Makeeff

Recovering Access Costs: The Debate

David Gabel

Universal Service: A Stakeholder Response

James C. Smith

V: EMBARKING ON A NEW UNIVERSAL SERVICE POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Review of Federal Universal Service Policy in the United States

Barbara A. Cherry

Steven S. Wildman

Some Legal Puzzles in the 1996 Statutory Provisions for Universal Telecommunications Services

Warren G. Lavey

Universal Service and the National Information Infrastructure (NII): Making the Grade on the Information Superhighway

James McGonnaughey

VI: THE ROLE OF THE STATES

The New State Role in Ensuring Universal Telecommunications Services

Thomas W. Bonnett

Breaking the Bottleneck and Sharing the Wealth: A Perspective on Universal Service Policy in an Era of Local Competition

Robert K. Lock, Jr.

Author Index

Subject Index