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This book provides a comprehensive, accessible, and balanced analysis of telecommunications policy in the United States amid the transformative rise of the Internet. The authors examine the evolving legal, economic and technological landscape — from traditional wireline and wireless telephony to broadband Internet, video distribution, and VoIP — and how regulatory frameworks (notably the Telecommunications Act of 1996) have adapted (or failed to adapt). With extensive endnotes, tables of court rulings, FCC orders, statutory text, glossaries and appendices, the book aims to help both non‑specialists and practitioners understand competition policy, platform convergence, interconnection, universal service, and regulation vs. market dynamics.

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