Federal Telecommunications Law

Identify the opportunities and avoid potential problems in the exploding area of telecommunications law with the book that defines the field. In sixteen chapters, three expert authors answer all the legal, regulatory, and policy questions surrounding the telecommunications industry and confront the most urgent current issues, including: * Modifications to the AT&T consent decree to permit the Bell companies to enter new businesses * The FCC's "open network architecture" rules * The replacement of rate-of-return regulation with "price caps" * Privacy and First Amendment implications of "Caller ID" and other technological developments With texts of both the AT&T and GTE consent decrees, Federal Telecommunications Law is an indispensable weapon in the ongoing struggle to comply with inconsistent and shifting regulations.