The NTIA Telecom 2000 report: charting the course for a new century

A comprehensive report on the communications policies that the US government should follow to ensure that national economic, government, and social needs are met in the year 2000 and beyond, released in October 1, 1988 by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), is discussed. The report, which is broad in scope, stresses the virtues of limited government involvement and maximum possible reliance on the private sector. It reviews the problems of simply transferring pro-competitive, deregulatory US policies from the domestic to the international communications arena. The report demonstrates how communications policy choices will affect a broad range of other topics, such as educational opportunities, the global competitiveness of American industry, and the quality of national life. The great importance of effectively competitive international communications and the trend toward liberalization in key overseas markets is also addressed.<>