Editor’s Note Articles Liberalized Telecommunications Trade in the WTO: Implications for Universal Service Policy By Taunya L. McLarty The basic telecommunications commitments associated with the General Agreement on Trade in Services significantly affect market liberalization. Ultimately, a domestic legal framework… Read More »Volume 51; 1998-1999 • Issue 1
Articles Vertical Separation of Telecommunications Networks: Evidence from Five Countries by Robert W. Crandall, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, and Robert E. Litan The widespread adoption of mandatory unbundling in telecommunications markets has led to growing interest in mandatory “functional separation,” i.e.,… Read More »Volume 62; 2009-2010 • Issue 3
Articles Internet Governance and Democratic Legitimacy by Olivier Sylvain Even as the Internet goes pop, federal policymakers continue to surrender their statutory obligation to regulate communications in the first instance to extralegal nongovernmental organizations comprised of technical experts. The FCC’s… Read More »Volume 62; 2009-2010 • Issue 2
Introduction Advancing Consumer Interest Through Ubiquitous Broadband: The Need for a New Spectrum by Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker Comprehensive and long-term spectrum reform can play a critical role in the FCC’s development of a National Broadband Plan and in its… Read More »Volume 62; 2009-2010 • Issue 1