Telecommunications technology has been rapidly changingsince the breakup of AT&T in 1984, producing productsand services unforeseen by the courts. One of the majoradvances has been the convergence of voice, video anddata services across all types of telecommunications media. The regulation of telecommunications has not kept pacewith the technological changes, resulting in regulatoryinconsistency between various products and service providers.
Kudos, Tarrant County
Fiscal conservatism is alive-and-well in Texas’ 3rd largest county. As evidence, consider that Tarrant County officials last year approved a tax rate below the no-new-revenue (NNR) tax rate, resulting in an astonishing “13.17 percent” rate reduction. As impressive as that was though, county leaders took things one step further by creating a 10% local option...