Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Before and after the breakup of AT & T
  • Stability as the world changed
  • The Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • The second race to cover the United States in optical fiber
  • The big get bigger : the entry of the RBOCs into the long-distance market
  • The last stand of the long-distance companies
  • The rise and fall of the competitive local exchange carriers
  • Lost opportunities by the cable companies
  • The crash
  • Who won?
  • Likely future winners and losers
  • A look back and a look forward.