To appreciate the implications of recent government and regulatory decisions advancing competition in certain local network and long-distance telecommunications services, new regulatory and pricing mechanisms, and even an entirely new legal framework, it is necessary to recover the historical origins of the regulatory concepts and industry structures that are being deregulated out of existence, or said to be altered by technological circumstances and economic imperatives.
Pour bien saisir les implications de ces décisions, il faut étudier les origines historiques des concepts réglementaires et des structures industrielles que la déréglementation est en train de faire disparaître, ou que dit-on des circonstances technologiques et des impératifs économiques sont en train de transformer.