For the past several decades, U.S. policymakers and the courts have charged a largely deregulatory course with respect to telecommunications. During the initial stages, these decisionmakers responded to technological improvements by narrowing regulation to cover only those portions of industry...

Looking backwards on the occasion of Telecommunications Policy’s fortieth anniversary reveals just how far U.S. communications policy has come. All of the major challenges of 1976, such as promoting competition in customer premises equipment, long distance, and television networking, have...

Telecommunications regulation has experienced a fundamental shift from rate regulation to increased reliance on compelled access. Of particular note, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 imposed no fewer than four access requirements. Unfortunately, each access requirement is governed by a...