一、前言美国是世界上最早发展电信业的国家,也是当今世界通信与信息技术最为发达的国家,同时也是最早实施电信管制和不断率先进行电信管制改革的国家。美国作为世界电信强国,其电信管制体制和电信管制改革必然成为别国电信发展和电信管制改革的参照系。尽管美国电信管制体制及其变革是研究我国电信管制及电信法律的主要参考对象,我国电信管制机构人员近年来也成为美国电信管制机构有关研讨会的常客,但国内对美国电信管制的研究却仍流于表面。从文献上看,多为研究电信管制问 I. Introduction The United States is the earliest country in the world to develop the telecommunications industry. It is also the country with the most advanced communications and information technologies in the world today. It is also the earliest country in implementing telecom regulation and the first in telecom regulatory reform. As a world telecommunication power, the United States has inevitably become the frame of reference for the development of telecommunications and the reform of telecommunications control in other countries as the telecom regulatory system and telecommunications regulatory reform. Although the system and its reform of the telecommunications in the United States are the main reference objects for studying the telecommunications regulation and telecommunications law in our country, the personnel of the telecommunications regulatory agencies in our country have also become regulars in recent years about the telecommunications regulatory agencies in the United States. However, the domestic research on the regulation of telecommunications in the United States Flow on the surface. From the literature, mostly for the study of telecommunications control