ABSTRACT
In October 1988 the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released its NTIA Telecom 2000 report. NTIA Telecom 2000 report is aimed at making good things happen, to the ultimate benefit of our country. The idea of publishing such a magnum opus on communications had arisen a year earlier, in conjunction with the planned revision of a 1985 report entitled NTIA Competition Benefits Report. Many of the recommendations contained in the NTIA Telecom 2000 report should be familiar. First, the report stresses the virtues of limited government, and maximum possible reliance on competitive private enterprise. Second, it emphasizes the importance of maximum possible individual freedom and choice. The NTIA Telecom 2000 report reviews the limitations on deregulatory policies resulting from the fact that, although America's is a competitive, largely market-driven communications economy, most of the rest of the world is not.
