WILLIAM H. READ is Southern Bell Professor of Communications Policy at Georgia Tech and has three decades of experience in the communications field as a scholar, attorney, and public servant./e In addition to his research and writing, he teaches graduate courses at Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy and School of Management, is a research affiliate with the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University, and serves as co-chair of the Atlanta Chapter of the Federal Communication Bar Association. JAN L. YOUTIE is a Senior Research Associate in the Economic Development Institute at Georgia Tech./e With more than twelve years of experience in both the public and private sector, her particular areas of expertise are economic development research, technology transfer, and policy assessment. Recently she has worked with the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunication Technology, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and the Aspen Institute.