The tenth anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in early February provides an opportunity to reexamine the Act and current proposals to replace it. The 1996 law was the first successful attempt to rewrite the sixty-two-year-old Communications Act of 1934 and it has been criticized as being vague and...

F. Duane Ackerman, chairman and chief executive officer of BellSouth Corporation, assesses the future of telecommunications reform in the United States.

This conference, jointly sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the University of Southern California Center for Communications Law and Policy, will examine from the perspective of both economics and politics how the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has delivered on its promises. In particular, participants will discuss whether the...

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

Almost nine years have passed since the Telecommunications Act of 1996—the first major congressional overhaul of telecommunications law in almost sixty-two years. The provisions concerning competition for local telephone services have been especially controversial and have prompted much litigation. Given the likelihood that Congress will revisit telecommunications legislation in 2005,...

While the United States continues to resolve the ambiguities in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the European Union has embraced a new regulatory framework for telecommunications that relies to a greater extent on antitrust principles. Participants at this conference will analyze the growing use, in both the United States and...

Please note the video on the left is of the panel discussions only. A video of David Dorman's address is available here.

Almost nine years have passed since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first major congressional overhaul of telecommunications law in almost sixty-two...