Telecommunications Law and Policy is a textbook that introduces the various regulatory regimes that today govern the provision of broadcast radio, broadcast television, cable television, wireline telephone, broadband Internet, and virtually every other major telecommunications service. Now in its second edition, the book considers all of these topics from the legal, economic, and public policy perspectives. To that end, the book include excerpts of important court decisions, excerpts of central government documents, and also original discussions of, and questions about, the underlying policies, strategies, and social welfare implications. The old edition was published in 2001; the current edition is being published in July 2006; and every year there have been and will continue to be annual supplements.

On the navigation bar at the top of this screen there is a link to the table of contents as well as links to the preface and two sample chapters. Readers familiar with the previous edition will recognize the basic flow of the book; new readers will see that the book is largely organized in chronological order, looking first at the technologies that policymakers had in mind when most of the regulatory regime was initially built, and then layering in the newer technologies that today are probably more important from a social and economic perspective.

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