Author: Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195054458
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
The Irony of Regulatory Reform
Author: Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195054458
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195054458
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
Talk is Cheap
Author: Robert W. Crandall
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815719701
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone companies with a wide array of new market opportunities. Unfortunately, their status as regulated carriers makes it difficult to exploit these new opportunities and to fend off competitive assaults on their traditional telephone business. As long as they are regulated, they can be accused of using their monopoly services to cross-subsidize new competitive ventures. But partial deregulation and open entry would be a catastrophe for them unless they were allowed to revise their rate structure. There is a widespread misconception that the U.S. telecommunications industry has been "deregulated" and that Canadian authorities are following the U.S. lead. In fact, most services remain regulated, even though some markets, such as long-distance services, equipment sales and rentals, and local services, have been opened up. This book reviews the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyze the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets with particular emphasis on the impacts of regulatory reforms and competition on long-distance rates. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly on the road to the information superhighway. The authors contend that for decades misguided regulation of the telephone sector in both Canada and the U.S. denied consumers the benefits of competition, distorted local and long-distance telephone rates, and blocked en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815719701
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone companies with a wide array of new market opportunities. Unfortunately, their status as regulated carriers makes it difficult to exploit these new opportunities and to fend off competitive assaults on their traditional telephone business. As long as they are regulated, they can be accused of using their monopoly services to cross-subsidize new competitive ventures. But partial deregulation and open entry would be a catastrophe for them unless they were allowed to revise their rate structure. There is a widespread misconception that the U.S. telecommunications industry has been "deregulated" and that Canadian authorities are following the U.S. lead. In fact, most services remain regulated, even though some markets, such as long-distance services, equipment sales and rentals, and local services, have been opened up. This book reviews the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyze the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets with particular emphasis on the impacts of regulatory reforms and competition on long-distance rates. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly on the road to the information superhighway. The authors contend that for decades misguided regulation of the telephone sector in both Canada and the U.S. denied consumers the benefits of competition, distorted local and long-distance telephone rates, and blocked en
Price Caps in Telecommunications Regulatory Reform
Author: Leland L. Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Price regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Price regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Telecommunications regulatory reform
Author: Angele A. Gilroy
Publisher:
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Telecommunications Regulatory Reform
Author: Alex-Joshua G. Adeyinka
Publisher:
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Small Business Access to Competitive Telecommunications Services
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Financial Market Regulatory Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance
Publisher:
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Category : Futures market
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Futures market
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Talk is Cheap: the Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Focuses on the distortions in pricing resulting from regulation. Assesses the impact of competition.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Focuses on the distortions in pricing resulting from regulation. Assesses the impact of competition.
Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications
Author: Felix Chin
Publisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Author: Kirsten Rodine-Hardy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107311020
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107311020
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.