Editing History of radio (section)

=== The Telecommunications Act of 1996 ===
The [[Telecommunications Act of 1996]] was the first significant overhaul in over 60 years amending the work of the Communications Act of 1934. Coming only two dozen years after the breakup of AT&T, the act sets out to move telecommunications into a state of competition with their markets and the networks they are a part of.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Economides|first=Nicholas|date=1999-12-01|title=The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and its impact1Presented at the Annual Telecommunications Policy Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 4 December 1997. I thank Hajime Hori, Bob Kargoll, Steve Levinson, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments.1|journal=Japan and the World Economy|language=en|volume=11|issue=4|pages=455–83|doi=10.1016/S0922-1425(98)00056-5|issn=0922-1425|doi-access=free}}</ref> Up to this point the effects of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 have been seen, but some of the changes the Act set out to fix are still ongoing problems, such as being unable to create an open competitive market.