The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the...

Introduction to managerial economics -- Demand -- Elasticity -- Supply -- Competitive markets -- Economic efficiency -- Costs -- Monopoly -- Pricing -- Strategic thinking -- Oligopoly -- Externalities -- Asymmetric information -- Incentives and organization -- Regulation