Author: | Mueller, M. |
Title: | Universal service and the telecommunications act: myth made law |
Journal: | Communications of the ACM
1997 : MAR, VOL. 40:3, p. 39-47 |
Index terms: | COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY LAW ECONOMICS |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Despite losing most of the political, legal, and regulatory battles of the 1970s, AT&T managed to establish the idea that the 1934 Communications Act mandated "universal service". That myth became a philosophical foundation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, possibly undermining the march toward a competitive, deregulated telecommunications industry while re-politicizing industry pricing. |
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