Foreword: Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age — The Next Five Years
9 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2013
Date Written: October 1, 2012
Abstract
This is the Foreword to a book, "Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age — The Next Five Years," which I edited and which is published by Carolina Academic Press in Durham, NC. The Foreword describes the contents of the book's nine chapters, which cover a broad range of current communications law and policy topics, including net neutrality, spectrum policy, spectrum auctions, wireless regulation, universal service, public media, and the political economy of communications law reform. At a time when the communications/Internet marketplace is undergoing rapid change as a result of dynamic technological advances and increasing competition across most segments, the book's Foreword provides a good context for understanding today's most important communications policy issues and the choices confronting communications policymakers going forward. Of course, the individual chapters discuss these issues in depth.
In addition to myself, contributors to the book are: Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Michelle Connolly, Seth Cooper, Ellen Goodman, Daniel Lyons, Bruce Owen, James Speta, and Christopher Yoo.
Keywords: Communications Law, Communications Policy, FCC, Net Neutrality, Spectrum Policy, FCC Reform
JEL Classification: D40, D44, L51, L50, O30
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