Receiving authority to dismantle the wireline public switched telephone network (PSTN) will deliver a mixture of financial benefits and costs to incumbent carriers and also jeopardize longstanding legislative and regulatory goals seeking ubiquitous, affordable and fully interconnected networks....

Technological and marketplace convergence in Information, Communications and Entertainment ("ICE") has contributed to the merger of conduit and content. Yet laws, regulations and trade policies assume a separation between the delivery of content and the creation of the content. For example, the...