Look Ma, no wires.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS laws & regulations; TRADE regulation; TELECOMMUNICATION policy; CABLE television; DIGITAL telephone systems; US West Media Group Inc.; CONTINENTAL Cablevision Inc.; MERGERS & acquisitions

Focuses on the impact of the telecommunication reform law on the Bell companies' local phone monopolies. Attack on the Bell companies' local phone monopolies by long distance carriers and the cable television industry; Information that the US West Media Group Inc. agreed to pay 10.8 billion dollar to buy Continental Cablevision Inc.; Use of the Federal Communications Commission licenses by a local cable operator; Report that wireless cable is a powerful medium of converting analog to digital.