by Peter Huber, Michael Kellogg, and John Thorne
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Telephony
1.1 The End of the Protected Franchise
1.1.1 Entry Barriers Preempted
1.1.2 The Obligations of Carriers
1.1.1a All Telecommunications Carriers
1.1.1b Local Exchange Carriers
1.1.1c Incumbent LECs
1.1.1d Rural Telephone Companies
1.1.3 Determining the Scope of the New Obligations
1.1.4 Number Portability
1.1.5 Dialing Parity
1.1.6 Physical Collocation
1.1.7 Resale
1.1.8 Reciprocal Compensation
1.1.9 Local Interconnection and Unbundling
1.1.10 Interconnection/Unbundling Agreements
1.1.11 Life after Unbundling
1.2 The End of the Quarantine
1.2.1 In-Region Interexchange Relief for Bell
Companies
1.2.2 Payphones
1.2.3 Out-of-Region Interexchange Relief for Bell
Companies
1.2.4 Incidental Interexchange Relief
1.2.5 Manufacturing
1.2.6 Separate Subsidiary Requirements for Bell
Companies
1.2.7 Termination of the Bell Divestiture Decree
1.2.8 Termination of the GTE Decree
1.2.9 Termination of the AT&T/McCaw Decree
1.2.10 Separation of Powers
1.2.11 Effect on Antitrust Laws
1.2.12 Federal-State Relations
1.3 The End of Cradle-to-Grave Regulation?
1.3.1 A Crushing Mandate
1.3.2 Pole Attachments
1.3.3 Unfair Billing Practices
1.3.4 Customer Privacy
1.3.5 Universal Service
1.3.6 Miscellaneous
1.3.7 Planting the Seeds of Deregulation
Chapter 2 Broadcast
2.1 Advanced Television Services
2.2 Structural Limits
2.2.1 Radio Ownership
2.2.2 TV Ownership
2.2.3 Cross-Ownership
2.3 Broadcast Licensing Reform
2.4 Preemption of State Regulation of Satellite Services
2.5 Restrictions on Reception of Video Programming
Services
2.6 DBS Piracy
2.7 Ship-to-Shore Radio
Chapter 3 Cable and Video Services
3.1 Cable Rate Deregulation
3.1.1 Service to Multiple Dwelling Units
3.1.2 Service to Small Communities
3.1.3 Upper Tier Channels
3.1.4 Interactive and Telecom Services
3.1.5 Rate Complaints
3.2 Making Connections
3.2.1 Customer-Premises Equipment and Navigation
Devices
3.2.2 Preemption of Local Standards for Cable
Networks and Customer Equipment
3.3 Video from the Phone Company
3.3.1 Common Carriage
3.3.2 Cable Service
3.3.3 "Wireless Cable" Service
3.3.4 "Open" Video Systems
3.4 Cable Operator Provision of Telecom Services
3.5 Cable-Telco Mergers
Chapter 4 Obscenity and Violence
4.1 Cybersleaze
4.1.1 Bad Actors
4.1.2 Good Samaritans
4.2 Television Sleaze and The "V Chip"
4.2.1 Ratings
4.2.2 "V Chips" in TV sets
4.3 Sleaze on Cable
4.4 The First Amendment
4.4.1 Cybersleaze
4.4.2 The V Chip
4.4.3 Cable Indecency
4.4.4 Summary