Since 1997, the U.S. government has attempted to use the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on telecommunications … services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States … took the position in 1997 that the WTO telecommunications agreement requires its signatory nations to follow the practices …

area LATA) to another. Although the Telecommunications Act of 1996 superseded the MFJ, it retained the BOCs' interLATA …

. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and …

In this piece, we respond to comments on our earlier essay on access pricing in telecommunications on the efficient …