Competition and deregulation in telecommunications : the case for a new paradigm / by Thomas J. Duesterberg and Kenneth Gordon.
1997
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Title
Competition and deregulation in telecommunications : the case for a new paradigm / by Thomas J. Duesterberg and Kenneth Gordon.
Published
Indianapolis, Ind. : Hudson Institute, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
HE7781 .D83 1997
ISBN
1558130632
Description
xii, 119 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37203665
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [97]-111) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Ch. 1
Introduction and Overview: The Promise of Deregulation
1
The Telecommunications Industry in the Age of Innovation
4
Lags in Introducing Competition, New Technology, and New Services in the U.S. Telecommunications Sector
12
Additional Consequences of Regulation-Induced Delay
16
Ch. 2
Competition in Telecommunications Networks: Pricing and Interconnection
23
Pricing Interconnection
25
Markets, Efficiency, and Prices
26
Access Policies and Regulated Competition
28
The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Federal and State Roles
35
Rate-Structure Reform and the States
40
Living With Regulatory Obligations and the Existing Price Structure
43
Ch. 3
The Dilemma of Universal Service
47
A Brief History of Universal Service
48
The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Expanding Universal Service
52
The Rulemaking Process Since February 1996
55
Expansion of Services in the Contemporary Marketplace
59
Universal Service for the Twenty-first Century: The Case for a Limited Program
61
A Modest Universal-Service Program
66
Ch. 4
Toward a More Rapid and Fundamental Deregulation of Telecommunications
73
The Stifling of Competition by Current Regulatory Policy
73
Additional Means to Achieve More Rapid Deregulation
79
The Role of the States
89
Thinking the Unthinkable: Sunsetting Regulation
92
Endnotes
97
Index
113