A selection of papers from the 31st Annual Telecommunication Policy Research Conference.

This special issue of Telecommunications Policy might never have happened save for the heroic efforts of nearly 300 people last September who would not be deterred by travel delays, lengthy power outages and falling trees to participate in the 31st Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC). Isabel, the worst hurricane to hit Washington D.C. in over 30 years, capped a year of challenges, not only from the weather, but from many significant changes for TPRC as well. The conference had a new administrative staff, a new publisher, a new location and a new partner in the National Center for Technology and Law at the George Mason University Law School. This volume contains a selection of nine visionary papers from the 2003 conference. This special issue of Telecommunication Policy is the outcome of a new joint venture with TPRC to bring the conference's scholarship to a wider audience.