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Endorsements

"A magnificent achievement. As someone who has been involved over the last four decades in what was once known as the 'telephone' business, I found Digital Crossroads an extraordinarily lucid description and explanation of the revolutionary significance of its transformation into 'telecommunications.' The new proliferation of services that are available from an array of vendors shoots all sorts of holes in a system of government regulation designed both to protect captive consumers from local telephone franchisees and to force those one-time monopolists to share facilities with their rivals in order to stimulate local competition. Digital Crossroads is not exactly light bedtime reading, but for anyone attempting to grasp these changes in our digital age, it is full of clear explanations and fair-minded assessments of the continuing regulatory issues they raise. This is a marvelous book, and well worth working through from cover to cover, as I have done."

—Alfred Kahn
former Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission and Civil Aeronautics Board
Advisor to President Carter on Inflation

"Digital Crossroads brings fresh clarity to a complex subject. It is thorough, comprehensive, and insightful, and will prove invaluable to anyone trying to navigate the tumultuous changes of the digital age."

—The Honorable Michael K. Powell

"An amazingly good book, written by two lawyers who really know what is (and was) going on. Everything in this extremely complex industry is covered, thoroughly and lucidly. This book makes the murky subject of telecommunications as the base technology for the Internet crystal clear, and the authors get it right."

—Gerald R. Faulhaber
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
former Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission

"Jon Nuechterlein and Phil Weiser have written *the* book on domestic telecommunications policy. First, this timely book is very readable from the perspective of any interested layperson trying to understand today's intense and often complex debates on crucial issues in the field. At the same time, the authors' comprehensive and studious analysis -- not only of the legal aspects of the issues, but also of the technological, business, and economic developments surrounding those issues -- makes the book indispensable for serious scholars and professionals involved in telecommunications policymaking."

—Dale Hatfield
former Chief Technologist and former Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission

"Digital Crossroads is an essential read for anyone interested in the history-making changes occurring in communications, an industry at the heart of the American economy. It lucidly explains how and why public policy must change to accommodate the Internet's revolutionary impact on the way people communicate. This book is a long-overdue voice of insight and reason in a field too often marked by simplistic, self-serving rhetoric."

—Jim Crowe
CEO, Level 3 Communications, Inc.