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Business solutions to the alien ownership restriction.
I. INTRODUCTION II. CONGLOMERATION AND THE BROADCAST LICENSE A. The Old Studio System B. The Foundation Crumbles 1. Antitrust 2. Television C. The New System . . .

Reverse auctions and universal telecommunications service: lessons from global experience.
I. INTRODUCTION II. UNIVERSAL SERVICE IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE A. Rationale for Universal Service in Telecommunications B. Tax and Distribution Schemes are Inefficient C. How Much . . .

Leave me alone! The delicate balance of privacy and commercial speech in the evolving do-not-call registry.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE BEGINNING OF THE NATIONAL DO-NOT-CALL REGISTRY A. Telephone Consumer Protection Act B. Telemarketing Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act C . . .

The AT&T consent decree: in praise of interconnection only.(The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retr
I. THE BELL DECREE AND THE CORPORATIST MINDSET II. "DEREGULATION" IN A NETWORK INDUSTRY: DO GREENE AND BAXTER MIX? III. STRUCTURAL VERSUS CONDUCT REMEDIES IV. CONDUCT AND STRUCTURAL . . .

Will access regulation work? (The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective)
The premise of this panel is that the FCC is transitioning from a rate regulation regime to an access regime. A rate regulation regime gives all customers full access to network facilities (common . . .

The RIAA, the DMCA, and the forgotten few webcasters: a call for change in digital copyright royalties.(Digital Millennium Copyr
I. INTRODUCTION II. WEBCASTING AND COPYRIGHT LAW: A HISTORY A. How Webcasting Works B. Copyright Background. C. The Musical Work (Composition) Copyright and Mechanical . . .

An evaluation of the proposals in the FCC's Intercarrier Compensation Reform Docket related to tandem transit services.
I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY II. TANDEM TRANSIT SERVICES: AN OVERVIEW III. RECENT STATE COMMISSION DEVELOPMENTS A. Background B. Commission Rulings 1. Georgia 2. New . . .

"Fleeting expletives" are the tip of the iceberg: fallout from exposing the arbitrary and capricious nature of indecency regulat
I. INTRODUCTION II. OVERVIEW III. FINDING INDECENT SPEECH IV. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY ACTIONS A. Development of the Judicial Gloss on . . .

Essential facilities and Trinko: should antitrust and regulation be combined? (The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Tw
I. INTRODUCTION II. COMPARING A T&T AND TRINKO: CHANGES IN ATTITUDES, CHANGES IN LATITUDE III. REGULATION AND ANTITRUST AS COMPLEMENTS, NOT SUBSTITUTES IV. "ESSENTIAL FACILITIES" AND . . .

An oligopoly analysis of AT&T's performance in the wireline long-distance markets after divestiture.(The Enduring Lessons of the
Having been present at the creation of "divestiture," as the next witness for the defense scheduled to be called before the court, the day after the surprise settlement, and therefore never . . .

A fundamental misunderstanding: FCC implementation of U.S. WTO commitments.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE SCOPE OF SECTION 310 III. U.S. TRADE COMMITMENTS IV. NAFTA COMMITMENTS V. OTHER TELECOMMUNICATIONS AGREEMENTS VI. WTO COMMITMENTS VII. FCC IMPLEMENTATION . . .

Editor's note.
Welcome to the second Issue of the sixty-first Volume of the Federal Communications Law Journal, the nation's premier communications law journal and the official journal of the . . .

Reexamining the legacy of dual regulation: reforming dual merger review by the DOJ and the FCC. (The Enduring Lessons of the Bre
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE VICES AND VIRTUES OF REDUNDANT REGULATORY MERGER REVIEW A. The Perils of FCC Merger Review B. Regulatory Oversight as Complementary to Antitrust III. THE . . .

Toward a unified theory of access to local telephone networks.(The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year R
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE HISTORY OF THE REGULATION OF LOCAL TELEPHONY A. Early State and Federal Regulation B. The Emergence of Competition in Complementary Services C. The . . .

The decline and fall of AT&T: a personal recollection.(The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospec
Thank you very much, Chris. I needed a generous introduction because I realized, listening to the very interesting talks this morning, that I hadn't thought about telecommunication policy . . .

Paying the price for sports TV: preventing the strategic misuse of the FCC's carriage regulations.
I. INTRODUCTION II. LEAGUE-OWNED NETWORKS AND REGIONAL SPORTS NETWORKS A. Background: Cable Sports and Vertical Integration B. The Roots of the Dispute Between Cable Companies . . .

Beyond content neutrality: understanding content-based promotion of democratic speech.
I. INTRODUCTION: CONTENT-BASED LAWS THAT PROMOTE FAVORED CONTENT II. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON CONTENT III. DESCRIPTIVE ARGUMENT: CONTENT PROMOTION DOES NOT RECEIVE HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, . . .

Are regulators forward-looking? The market price of copper versus the regulated price of mandatory access to unbundled local loo
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR FORWARD-LOOKING COST MODELS III. COPPER PRICES AND THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IV. COPPER PRICES AND THE NEW ZEALAND . . .

Did AT&T die in vain? An empirical comparison of AT&T and Bell Canada.(The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Fiv
I. INTRODUCTION II. MARKET STRUCTURE III. GROWTH IV. PRICES V. EMPLOYMENT VI. MARKET CAPITALIZATION VII. OWNERSHIP VIII. TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT IX. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT X. . . .

The Bell System divestiture: background, implementation, and outcome. (The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Fiv
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE RISE OF COMPETITION III. THE ANTITRUST SUIT IV. NEAR-TERM RESULTS V. LONGER-TERM RESULTS VI. CONCLUSIONS I. INTRODUCTION The telephone industry in the United . . .

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