Telecommunications Regulation

CPT Pages on Specific Telecom Issues

• CPT's Page on FCC Proceeding on Access Charge Reform.
• CPT's Selected Statistics on Concentration in Telecommunications and Media Markets
• CPT's page on Direct Broadcast Satellites.
• CPT's page on ISDN Pricing Issues

General CPT Telecommunications Filings

• March 31, 1998 Letter to NY PSC regarding Bell Atlantic entry into long distance.
• February 22, 1997, James Love, "A Consumer Perspective on Bandwidth, Network Congestion, Network Architecture and Regulatory Reform," Presentation to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS (NARUC).
• CPT's February 14, 1997 reply comments in FCC proceeding on Access Charge Reform. For lots more on this issue, see the CPT page on Access Charge Reform.
• CPT's January 23, 1997 prepared statement at the FCC Forum on Available Bandwidth, plus James Love's notes on the forum, and the FCC's Transcripts from the event.
• CPT's May 30, 1996 reply comments in the FCC "Local Competitiion" proceeding. Includes discussion of need to give new entrants for local telephone service access to copper wire local loop for use in ISDN, ADSL, HDSL and other new digital technologies.
• CPT's May 8, 1996 comments on CPT's May 8, 1996 FCC proceeding on Internet Phone. Includes discussion of need to eliminate per-minute charges for network access. Additional information about this issue is found on the "Voice on the Net," or VON Coalition Web site, including copies of some of the pleadings in the FCC proceeding.
• CPT's April 12, 1996 comments onn FCC proceeding on Universial Service. Includes discussion of need to eliminate per-minute charges for network access.
• CPT's March 18, 1996 comments on "Inside Wiring" in cable systems.
• CPT's March 15, 1996, Opposition to EchoStar acquisition of additional DBS spectrum, and request for FCC rules to limit DBS concentration of ownership and to limit cross-ownership between cable and DBS.

Pre 1996 Telecommunications Act Analysis

• Ralph Nader, James Love and Andrew Saindon, July 15, 1995 letter on Federal Telecommunications Legislation - Impact on Media Concentration.
• Concentration and Cross-Ownership Rules - Before new federal legislation
• Proposed Senate changes in concentration and cross-ownership rules
• Proposed House changes in concentration and cross-ownership rules