"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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I gather you spent much of your career in the Telecom industry, so I
though
you might find this interesting:
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/excerpt
Who Killed Telecom? Why the Official Story Is Wrong
by Lawrence Gasman

In the mid-1990s as it seemed that lawmakers were about to abandon much of
the regulatory apparatus that had hampered the telecommunications industry
since the 1930s, the telecom equipment industry began to boom, helped in
part by the rise of the Internet. The deregulatory trend led ultimately to
the 1996 Telecom Act, and soon the architects and implementers of that act
were congratulating themselves on a job well done. We were supposedly
building a new telecom infrastructure fit for the information age.

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http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3662

/end excerpt
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Didn't want to send you unsolicited email!

Maybe next we can examine how energy deregulation led to nearly free
electricty in California.