For example, Japan is now urgently considering new approaches for allowing competitive entry into its telecommunications markets, including the possible emulation of our approach to breaking up AT&T. The European Community, which featured entrenched Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone authority (PTT) control of its national telephone monopolies, is now moving to liberalize its telecommunications sector by January 1998. Australia has already admitted a second telephone carrier, Optus, and New Zealand has not only privatized its national carrier and opened its market to competition but has also completely deregulated telecommunications. Finally, Canada has recently admitted entry into its long-distance sector and is considering the liberalization of local telephone service and video delivery services.