This volume considers whether the first major overhaul of U.S. communications policy in more than sixty years is accomplishing its purposes.

Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.

This book discusses local competition in the telecommunications sector.

J. Gregory Sidak and Daniel F. Spulber examine the justifications for the publicly-protected postal monopoly and its public ownership and control.

Tangled telecommunications regulation / Wernhard Möschel -- The path to competition for telecommunications in Germany / Christoph Engel -- Costing and pricing in liberalized telecommunications markets / Günter Knieps -- Regulation by TSLRIC : economic effects on investment and innovation /...