Telecommunications Free Trade Zones Crafting a Model for Local Exchange Competition

Introduces the notion of TFTZ¹s -- a geographically defined market in which any entrant meeting minimum qualifications would be permitted to offer, on a²take-all-comers² basis within the zone, the full array of telecommunications services, including local exchange switched services. Prices and terms of these services would be left to the market rather than the devices of the utility regulator. The regulator, however, would retain three crucially important resident powers: oversight, insurance against discrimination, and customary ratemaking powers.Barnich, Terrence L. is the author of 'Telecommunications Free Trade Zones Crafting a Model for Local Exchange Competition' with ISBN 9780788103667 and ISBN 0788103660.