Cover -- Table of contents -- Guest editorial -- The public interest and the global, future telecommunications landscape -- The hidden history of US public service telecommunications, 1919-1956 -- Regulatory economics and its discontents: some theoretical and historical observations -- Democracy of, in and through communication: struggles around public service in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century -- The labouring of the public service principle: union convergence and worker movements in the North American communication industries -- Constructing closed-captioning in the public interest: from minority media accessibility to mainstream educational technology -- Searching for universal access: the public interest, the FCC and the regulation of international telecommunications -- Telecom musings: public service issues in India -- ''Universal service'' and China's telecommunications miracle: discourses, practices, and post-WTO accession challenges -- The letter of the law: telecommunications and the corporate person -- Network neutrality is the new common carriage.