This document presents witness testimony and supplemental materials from a Congressional hearing regarding reform to national telecommunications policy, namely, replacing a regime of heavy regulation with a true market system. Statements are featured by Senators John Ashcroft, Conrad Burns, Ernest Hollings, Kay Baily Hutchison, John D. Rockefeller IV, Bob Packwood, Larry Pressler, and Ted Stevens. Testimony is included from: (1) Anne K. Bingaman, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; (2) Henry Geller, the Markle Foundation; (3) George Gilder, the Discovery Institute; (4) Kenneth Gordon, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities; (5) Peter W. Huber, Manhattan Institute; (6) Larry Irving, Department of Commerce; (7) John W. Mayo, University of Tennessee; (8) Dr. Lee Selwyn, Economics and Technology; and (9) Clay Whitehead, Clay Whitehead Associates. A brief appendix reports on the forecasts of the WEFA Group for communications competition. (BEW)

This book brings satisfying definition and clarity to this field at last. Exploring the substantive differences between competition law and sector-specific regulation after the methodological integration, it presents the first detailed analysis of the many hundreds of notifications and Commission letters generated under the Article 7 procedure, identifying the most relevant cases dealing with market definition, market power, and remedies. It compares these decisions with relevant competition law cases and highlights elements with a bearing on sector-specific regulation. It also offers hugely valuable guidance through the vast amount of documents in the Commission’s CIRCA database. Topics and issues raised include the following: definition of product markets; delineation of geographic markets (including sub-national); different practices in relation to assessing single market power and collective market power; and competition problems such as refusal to deal, margin squeeze, non-price discrimination, and excessive pricing. There can be little doubt that this is the new reference point for researchers and practitioners in this domain. By systematically categorizing the concepts and legal criteria and building a solid theoretical framework on the intersection of competition law and sector-specific regulation, the author has created a resource that is sure to be welcomed by all those involved in regulation of electronic communications markets and network industries in general: academic scholars, telecommunications regulators at the EU and Member State levels, competition authorities, law firms specializing in IT/communications law, practitioners in IT and telecommunications companies, and consultants in the sector. The book will also prove very useful for scholars and practitioners in other parts of the world interested in comparing the EU system with their own.

Papers presented attempted to identify the major issues presentlyconfronting telecommunications regulators, analyze the implications for thevarius stakeholders involved, and identify possible policy options. Twoshorter commentaries consider issues involved in moving from policy options to implementation, setting out the argument from the industry perspective and the government perspective. An American perrspective isalso offered, as is a commentary of the August 1986 decision of the CRTC(decision 85-19) dealing with that of Bell Canada and B.C. Tel.

ARIST, published annually since 1966, is a landmark publication within the information science community. It surveys the landscape of information science and technology, providing an analytical, authoritative, and accessible overview of recent trends and significant developments. The range of topics varies considerably, reflecting the dynamism of the discipline and the diversity of theoretical and applied perspectives. While ARIST continues to cover key topics associated with classical information science (e.g., bibliometrics, information retrieval), editor Blaise Cronin is selectively expanding its footprint in an effort to connect information science more tightly with cognate academic and professional communities.