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More on Telecomm
plus ça change
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Tele-Revolution: Telephone Competition at the Speed of Light, A History of the Creation of a Competitive Local Telephone Industry, 1984-2000
by Richard G. Tomlinson
Connecticut Research, Inc., 05/2000
ISBN: 0967874009
It's still about who controls the customer. The Bells do with phone lines,
and the CLEC industry largely crashed and burned.
Maybe it's time to split up each Bell instead.
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Who Broke Up AT&T?: From Ma Bell to the Internet
by Ray G. Besing
1stBooks Library, 07/2000
ISBN: 1588200108
Or should that be "what broke AT&T"? Divested of the Bells in the 1984
antitrust settlement, AT&T tried to reconnect via wireless and cable.
Not looking so good right now.
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You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics
by Reed E. Hundt
Yale Univ Press, 03/2000
ISBN: 0300083645
Former FCC commissioner's take on Broadband meets the Beltway.
Which leads to the next question.
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Is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Broken? If So, How Can We Fix It?
by J. Gregory Sidak (Editor)
AEI Press, 09/1999
ISBN: 0844740942
A question being asked with increasing frequency
with the latest telecomm meltdown.
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More on Antitrust
Historic cases and evolution
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Natural Monopoly and Its Regulation
by Richard A. Posner
Cato Inst, 04/1999
ISBN: 1882577817
Published by the Libertarian think tank, Richard A. Posner is Chief Judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and a professor and the University of Chicago Law School.
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Antitrust Law : An Economic Perspective
by Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Press, 02/1978
ISBN: 0226675580
Posner's earlier work, laying the groundwork for
shifting the focus of antitrust from protecting competition
(the infamous European/Monti model that nixed Worldcom/Sprint and
GE/Honeywell)
to protecting consumers (the US model).
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Antitrust: The Case for Repeal
by Dominick T. Armentano
Ludwig Von Mises Inst, 04/1999
ISBN: 0945466250
Analysis of Microsoft and other recent cases where antitrust
is used as the tool to keep your competitors from running away with the market.
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Antitrust and Monopoly
by Dominick T. Armentano, Yale Brozen
Independent Inst, 01/1999
ISBN: 0945999623
Comprehensive coverage of theory and analysis of
35 classic cases of antitrust from 1977 and earlier.
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