Throughout their short, but volatile lives, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have avoided having to satisfy traditional telecommunications regulatory requirements. ISPs do not operate as common carriers and do not have to pay access charges and make contributions to universal service funding....

While wireless technologies optimally support mobile applications, recent innovations make the technology more versatile and suitable for both mobile and fixed services. Failure to change assumptions about wireless technology can blunt its commercial promise and ability to help achieve...

Heightened attention to international accounting rates at the ITU and the WTO has led some observers to conclude that carriers soon will impose cost-based termination charges. This article concludes that while accounting rates have declined on some routes, many incumbent carriers can and will...

This article will examine call termination strategies of several representative mobile satellite service (MSS) operators with an eye towards identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their terrestrial call routing strategies. MSS traffic must easily flow into and out from public switched...

This article will examine telecommunications common carriage with an eye toward determining whether and how the concept can continue to provide a basis for law and regulation. The article identifies instances where courts and regulatory agencies have so finetuned the concept of common carriage...

Growing demand for wireless telecommunication services raises questions about the terms and conditions for interconnection with incumbent wireline carrier facilities. What has been a minor adjunct to wireline facilities may evolve into an infrastructure capable of providing near ubiquitous...

International telecommunication carriers negotiate operating agreements for routing traffic and dividing toll revenues. They also establish an accounting rate to compensate each other for accepting calls and delivering them to the intended recipient. Accounting rates have failed to drop...

Broadband network development does not always track closely a nations overall wealth and economic strength. The International Telecommunication Union reported that in 2005 the five top nations for broadband network market penetration were: Korea, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Denmark and Canada....