The Success and Failure of the 1996 Telecommunications Act
June 1, 2002
This collection of essays was produced and edited by the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a project of the Tides Center. It is a joint publication of the Center for Reflective Community Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Leadership Conference Education Fund.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
- Off Course on a Long Dark Road
by Mark Lloyd
Part One
Promoting Access
- Section 254 - Universal Service: A SuccessUnder Attack - The E-Rate and Beyond
by Sean O'Sullivan - Section 255 - Promoting Access by Persons with Disabilities: Mainstreaming Communicationsby Karen Peltz Strauss and Bruce Maxwell
- Section 706 - Promoting Access to Advanced Telecommunications Services: The FCC's Third Report on Broadband Deployment - Inequitable Untimely and Unreasonable
by Allen Hammond - The Impact on Rural America
by Mark Lloyd and Lynne Montgomery
Part Two
Mergers and Spectrum Policy - Diversity and the Public Interest
- Section 202 - Broadcast Ownership: A Gift to Big Media
by Janine Jaquet - Media Mergers (1995-2001)
- A Brief Note on Mergers in the Telecommunications Industry
by Mark Lloyd - Telecom Mergers (1996-2001)
- Section 336 - Broadcast Spectrum Flexibility: Spectrum Auction Ideology Under the Microscope
by Bennett Z. Kobb
Part Three
Correcting a History of Discrimination - Equity in Licensing and Access to Capital
- Section 257 - Eliminating Market Entry Barriers: The Best New Hope for Diversity and Inclusion
by David Honig and Moushumi Khan 155 - Section 714 -- The Telecommunications Development Fund: Making a Difference?
by S. Jenell Trigg
Afterword
- Does the Digital Divide Still Exist? Bush Administration Shrugs - But Evidence Says "Yes"
by Dr. Mark N. Cooper
