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The marketplace and technological changes that have occurred since the last major revision of the Communications Act in 1996 have rendered existing law and policy woefully outdated, if not obsolete. In the past fifteen years there has been a switch from analog to digital services, from narrowband to broadband networks, and, most importantly, from a mostly monopolistic to a generally competitive environment. In Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years, some of the nation's most eminent scholars explain why communications law and policy should be changed in response to these profound marketplace transitions. And, as importantly, the contributors explain how law and...
Randolph May is one of the nation's most oft-quoted, widely recognized authorities concerning communications law and policy. In this book, May brings his decades of experience to bear in proposing a radical new communications policy paradigm. The essays in this book demonstrate that the current regulatory regime, especially as administered by an overzealous FCC, is hopelessly outdated. Witness the FCC's recent adoption of "net neutrality" mandates to assert regulatory control over Internet providers. Still based on legacy analog-era techno-functional constructs that establish different regulations for "telephone," "cable," "satellite," "broadcasting," and "wireless" companies, the existing p...