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- Title: Essential Facilities and Trinko: Should Antitrust and Regulation be Combined? (The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective)
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 312 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION Having worked on the economics of competition and regulation in telecommunications since before AT&T's divestiture of its local telephone operating companies was announced in early 1982, (1) I have learned at least one lesson: issues never die. Even after a quarter century, we (taken in both the national and international senses) continue to cope with the extent to which competition can and should displace regulation in this sector and the degree to which telecommunications companies can vertically integrate. Nationally, struggles over the scope of regulation have taken place over the definition and terms of access to "network elements." (2) An international example of that struggle is the recent proceeding in Canada in which the national government intervened to force the Canadian regulatory agency to set relatively favorable terms for the deregulation of local telephone service. (3)
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