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There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network.

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Since 1971 competition has begun to replace regulation as a governing force in the telecommunications industry. The breakup of the national telephone monopolies, technological advances, and the worldwide network in telecommunications have brought a revolution in the telecommunications equipment and services industries.

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In Competition and Chaos, Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on economic welfare in the United States and how the act and its antecedents affected the major telecommunications providers.

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Reviews changes in the structure of US and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyse the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly.

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In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services.