The Federal Telecommunications Commission

Abstract

Historically, telecommunications have played a crucial role in almost every countryí development. Telecommunications are central to modern liberal economies. Although regulation has been a common concern in the study of telecommunications and the focus of virtually all-theoretical work in this area, a political analysis of the genesis and evolution of regulators is consistently neglected. As we will see, politics plays a crucial role in regulating telecommunications, and like the autonomy of the central bank, politics is an important but missing subject of analysis in the literature.