Telecommunications are emerging as a system of great institutional, technical, and legal complexity, serving different regions, user types, and software layers. The rules of interconnection of newcomers to the public network become perhaps the most important tool of structural regulation.

The project traces interconnection issues for local and long-distance telephony, mobile communications, cable-telco, internet, and others. In addition to evaluating the historical and current developments of interconnection policy in the U.S. and abroad, this project seeks to take a more fundamental approach to interconnection. It raises the question whether separate networks will interconnect in a competitive environment without regulation, and at what prices. A book manuscript is nearing completion.