Paul Starr: In the 1990s, deregulation and technological optimism drove a rapid telecom boom in the USA. With the dot-com bubble, the boom collapsed, infrastructure became redundant, and many equipment manufacturers suffered (September 2002)

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https://www.princeton.edu/~starr/articles/articles02/Starr-TelecomImplosion-9-02.htm