Shoko Kiyohara 　　First of all, I would like to thank President Hiroshi Ohira, The General Committee Chairman, Professor Akio Watanabe, and all members of Board of Directors. It is my great honor to receive an award of the 21st Pacific Basin Academic Grant. I also wish to thank members of the Selection Committee who read my draft manuscript. 　　This research had been conducted as my dissertation while I worked for the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo as a research associate. I deeply appreciated Professor Fumiaki Kubo as my advisor at Keio University, and Professor Clyde Wilcox as my mentor at Georgetown University. They always give me thoughtful advices, which greatly helped me finish writing the dissertation. Moreover, I would like to thank many people who allowed me to interview them in Washington D.C. Without their help, I could not have finished the research. 　　Looking back, it seemed that I started to study telecommunications policy in the U.S. because my father had worked for Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. When I was young, I found a lot of books on CATV and diffusion of ICTs at home. These books served as a stimulus for my future study on telecommunications policy. In addition, when I entered the graduate school, the entire communications world had been changing because of the emergence of the Internet. The Internet changes our daily lives, commerce, education, and politics. Many political scientists study how the Internet affects the interest groups’ activities and tactic as well as are concerned with how it is used for the presidential election. However, there is little research by political scientists on how the Internet influences telecommunications policy. Therefore I chose to study how the Internet affects the telecommunications policy process and AND WHAT?. 　　The telecommunications area in the U.S. was strictly regulated and its policy process was dominated by the giant telephone company, AT&T. Therefore, only the small number of political actors participated in the decision-making process. However, my research concluded that the emergence of the new issues related to the Internet stimulated more and more new actors outside of the telecommunications policy network. It is very interesting to clarify how the policy process has been changing in the Internet Age, and how more scattered political actors affect the policy in substance. 　　Now I am looking forward to publishing this dissertation as soon as possible. Thank you very much, again.