Regulators' Revenge: The Future of Telecommunications Deregulation (Hardback)
Edited by Tom W. Bell and Solveig Singleton
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Telecom reform: what went wrong?
Price: $18.95
Publication Date: September 1998
ISBN: 1-882577-68-X
Number of Pages: 153
Hardcover
Categories: Regulatory Studies
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About the Book
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, passed with great fanfare and glowing tributes from both Congress and the Administration, has failed to fulfill its deregulatory promise of lower prices and better service. In many cases the act has replaced regulated monopoly with eerily similar regulated competition. Some observers are even calling for more regulation. Because only markets that are truly free will innovate and remain healthy in the long run, however, these essays advocate further movement toward free markets in telecommunications.
Contributors include Alfred E. Kahn, Peter Huber, Henry Geller, Tom Tauke, Peter K. Pitsch, Thomas W. Hazlett, Eli M. Noam, and Lawrence Gasman, among others, discussing such issues as the current status of telecommunications deregulation, universal service and "information have-nots," interconnection, spectrum auctions, and broadcast licensing.
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About the Editors
Tom W. Bell is visiting professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Solveig Singleton is the former director of information studies for the Cato Institute. She is currently a senior policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Project on Technology and Innovation.
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What Others Have Said
"This important book provides a broad-based analysis of the basis for regulating both wired and wireless communications markets. It provides an important intellectual contribution at a time when both Congress and the FCC are prematurely considering the wisdom of deregulation."
--Robert Corn-Revere, Former Chief Counsel, Federal Communications Commission
"Regulators' Revenge presents a timely and insightful look at the recent past and potential future of regulatory reform in telecommunications. Covering the spectrum of telecommunications issues, it is essential reading for those trying to figure out what the next steps in telecommuncations reform should be."
--James Gattuso, Competitive Enterprise Institute
"This book shows how government has maintained and even expanded its control over this crucial market. Essential reading for every policymaker who mistakenly believes telecommuncations deregulation 'is already done.'"
--Jeffrey A. Eisenach, President, The Progress and Freedom Foundation
"Solveig Singleton and Tom Bell have put together a fascinating compendium of deregulatory papers and concepts. Agree with them or not, they are all conceptually stimulating and provocative. This is must reading for every telecommunications specialist."
--Richard E. Wiley, Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
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