This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on the question of how unbundling regulations in the...

Deregulation of the US telecommunications market - by far the largest in the world, accounting for 40% of the world market - has led to a rapid increase in imports, so that the United States is now pressing for "reciprocal" changes in other countries’ telecommunications markets. The...