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In the wake of the 1996 Act, the FCC is often cast as the Grinch who stole Christmas. Like the Whos, down in Who-ville, who feast on Who-pudding and rare Who-roast beast, the communications industry was preparing to feast on the deregulatory fruits it believed would inevitably sprout from the Act’s fertile soil. But this feast the FCC Grinch did not like in the least, so it is thought.
This is a slightly edited version of a speech delivered to a conference hosted by The Progress & Freedom Foundation on December 8, 2000.
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Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, socialism, and Democracy (Harper And Brothers, 1942) 83
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, socialism, and Democracy (Harper And Brothers, 1942) 83
Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104–104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996), Preamble. (D.D.C. 1982).
Modification of Final Judgment, reprinted in United States v. AT&T, 552 F. Supp. 131,233 (D.D.C. 1982).
47 U.S.C. § 157nt.
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Powell, M.K. (2001). The Great Digital Broadband Migration. In: Eisenach, J.A., May, R.J. (eds) Communications Deregulation and FCC Reform: Finishing the Job. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1521-0_2
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