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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: This book captures the effects of alternative tele- communications technolo- gies offering access to the switched telephone net- works on the marketplace for local telecommunica- tions services. Ingo Vogelsang and Bridger M. Mitchell focus on the local exchange carriers as actors facing new types of competition within the local access and transport areas defined by the 1982 consent decree that divested AT&T of its local operating companies. Thus, the territory is not a single local market-the last mile to the final consumer-but rather a set of possibly many markets, covering roughly the last ten miles to the con- sumer. In each of those markets a local exchange carrier is the dominant firm. The competitive arena includes most of the services that local exchange carriers now offer, in particular, interconnection services-those that link one network with another-offered to and by the new competitors. Related mar- kets, such as the cable television market, are relevant to the extent that cable television companies want to enter markets dominated by the local exchange carriers and to the extent that the local exchange carriers in turn want to enter the cable market. Vogelsang and Mitchell directly analyze the most pivotal issues raised by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This book is the first study to evaluate the FCC's landmark order on implementing the local competition provisions of the act. Ingo Vogelsang is professor of economics at Boston University. Bridger M. Mitchell is a vice president at Charles River Associates and director of its California office. The MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 VOGTH 0-262-22050-4 The AEI Press 90000 Publisher for the American Enterprise Institute11111111111111111 1150 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 9 780262 220507

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