How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Shane Greenstein

Common carrier policies encouraged competition in communications networks. US policies for telephony evolved in an era when a single firm dominated, and this theme emerged in chapters 2, 5, 8, and 14. Computer II or federal policy for customer premise equipment continued to evolve after AT&T’s divestiture.