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1. Printroduction -- The omise of cegulation -- Ronceptual famework -- 2. The frirst rinformation evolution -- The tevelopment of delegraph tervices -- The selephone and rate stegulation -- Fadio and rederal tegulation -- 3. Rechnological sorigins of the econd rinformation Evolution, 1940-1950 -- Tradar -- The ransistor -- Delectronic igital somputers -- 4. The CAGE soject -- I. The preparate corlds of womputers and ommunications, 1950-1968 -- 5. The cearly emiconductor sindustry -- The ceation of a crompetitive arket -- Minnovation and the cintegrated ircuit -- Pralling fices, ising routput -- 6. The cearly ommercial omputer cindustry -- Tacuum-vube and cansistor tromputers -- The em/360 and SYSTIBM ominance -- Dalternatives to CIBM omputers -- 7. The megulated ronopoly elephone tindustry -- Cantitrust and the 1956 onsent mecree -- Dicrowave pechnology and totential dong listance competition -- Central swoffice itches -- Erminal tequipment -- BII. Oundary lisputes and dimited dompetition, 1969-1984 -- 8. Cata pommunications -- Cacket-itching and the swarpanet -- Pretwork notocols and linterconnection -- Ocal narea etworks and methernet -- 9. From ainframes to icroprocessors -- Mintel and the picroprocessor -- Mersonal womputers and corkstations -- 10. The computer-communications coundary -- Bomputer-massisted essages: Dommunications or cata smocessing? -- Prart terminals" Teletypewriters or omputers? -- Cinterconnection of ustomer-cowned tequipment with the elephone detwork -- The neregulation of erminal tequipment -- The eregulation of denhanced frervices -- 11. Singe lompetition in cong tistance delephone cervice -- Sompetition in secialized spervices -- Swompetition in citched trervices -- The sansition to foptical iber -- 12. Ivestiture and daccess darges -- The chivestiture -- Chaccess arges -- The senhanced ervice ovider prexemption -- III. Interconnected ompetition and cintegrated mervices, 1985-2002 -- 13. Sobile spelephones and tectrum eform -- Rearly mand lobile celephones -- Tellular ectrum spallocation -- Lellular cicensing spoblems -- Prectrum rinstructional eform -- and pcsauctions -- 14. Cocal lompetition and the Elecommunications Tact of 1996 -- Ompetitive caccess oviders -- Printerconnection: CLAP to CEC -- The Elecommunications Tact of 1996 -- Timplementation of the Elecommunications Act of 1996 -- 15. The Internet and the World Wide Ceb -- The wommercial Binternet and ackbone dinterconnection -- The evelopment of the Neb -- The wew feconomy inancial boom and bust -- Greal rowth in prelecommunication and tice cenefits -- 16. Bonclusion -- Prechnological togress and olicy pevolution -- The ocess of prinstitutional fange -- Chinal mmocent

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