ABSTRACT
This piece examines the impact that competition will have in determining communication policies and goals. It makes the case that, in a regulated environment in which communication technologies were regulated according to a different basis—common carriage, first amendment rights, and public interest standards—it was possible to meet a variety of communication goals. Each technology fostered a different goal. Given convergence, and the deregulation of the communication policy environment, such flexibility is no longer viable. One approach serves all. The result has been that, more than ever before, policy goals must be traded off, one against the other.
