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Foreword | |
Preface | |
Introduction: A Regulatory Overview | p. 3 |
Broadcast and Spectrum Regulation | p. 9 |
An Introduction to Broadcast Regulation | p. 11 |
Why Regulation Broadcast? | p. 35 |
How We Regulate Broadcast | p. 57 |
License Hearings at the FCC (1934-1998) | p. 81 |
The Transition from Hearings to Auctions | p. 139 |
The Licensee as Public Trustee | p. 157 |
Fostering Competition in Broadcasting | p. 289 |
Case Studies in Low Power FM Radio and Digital Television | p. 325 |
Cable Television | p. 369 |
Cable Basics and the Early History | p. 371 |
Rate Regulation and Local Franchise Authority | p. 413 |
The Broadcast/Cable Relationship | p. 441 |
Structural Limitations | p. 499 |
Direct Broadcast Satellite | p. 541 |
Indecency Revisited | p. 567 |
Telephone Regulation | p. 603 |
An Introduction to Telephone Regulation | p. 605 |
Breakup of the Bell Monopoly | p. 641 |
Issues Post-Divestiture | p. 681 |
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 | p. 715 |
Mergers and Acquisitions | p. 793 |
The Internet and Advanced Services | p. 825 |
The Internet and its Regulation | p. 825 |
Advanced Services and Internet Architecture | p. 867 |
Characterizing Internet Service Providers | p. 927 |
Why an FCC? | p. 951 |
Statutory Appendix | p. 979 |
Conceptual Index and Telecommunications Glossary | p. 1045 |
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