Download or read book FCC Annual Report and Analysis of Competitive Market Conditions with Respect to Commerical Mobile Services written by and published by Information Gatekeepers Inc. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications FCC should include call quality in its annual report on competition in mobile phone services written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Competition in U S Wireless Markets written by Gerald R. Faulhaber and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last year's Annual Report and Analysis of Competitive Market Conditions with Respect to Mobile Wireless broke new ground by not concluding, as had prior reports, that the wireless services market was “effectively competitive.” This year's report did the same. The 14th and 15th reports review a wide variety of evidence, both direct (how firms and customers behave) and indirect (industry concentration measures) in making its competitive assessment. The reports are silent on how to interpret this evidence. In contrast, modern antitrust analysis relies far more on direct evidence. In failing to put more weight on the relevant direct market evidence to reach an informed competitive assessment, the 14th and 15th reports invite erroneous conclusions about the real state of competition in wireless markets. We are concerned that these erroneous conclusions eventually could adversely influence regulatory policy in wireless markets. Before economists came to rely on direct measures of market power, they relied on indirect measures, such as market share in the relevant markets, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), and market definitions. The 14th and 15th reports downplayed direct evidence of competition - namely, aggressive pricing behavior, robust entry, and continued long-term reductions in price, all of which strongly support a conclusion of “effective competition.” Instead, the FCC focuses on inferences of market power based on market shares. For example, the FCC makes much of the combined share of the top four wireless providers generally, and of the top two wireless providers, AT&T and Verizon, in particular. To test the FCC's presumed relationship between market structure and prices in the wireless industry, we analyze the TNS Telecoms database of cellular telephone bills. We find no statistically significant relationship between a household's monthly wireless bill and the HHI of the economic area in which the household resides. Thus, market concentration does not appear to have an impact on what the customer actually pays. This finding, along with the fact that wireless prices have declined over time as industry concentration has increased, undermines the structure-conduct hypothesis that undergirds the FCC's market-share analysis. Finally, we discuss the policy implications of our findings for handset exclusivity and spectrum allocation.
Download or read book Seduction by Contract written by Oren Bar-Gill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances, theatre and sports events, health clubs, magazine subscriptions, transportation, and more. Across these consumer markets certain design features of contracts are recurrent, and puzzling. Why do sellers design contracts to provide short-term benefits and impose long-term costs? Why are low introductory prices so common? Why are the contracts themselves so complex, with numerous fees and interest rates, tariffs and penalties? Seduction by Contract explains how consumer contracts emerge from the interaction between market forces and consumer psychology. Consumers are short-sighted and optimistic, so sellers compete to offer short-term benefits, while imposing long-term costs. Consumers are imperfectly rational, so sellers hide the true costs of products and services in complex contracts. Consumers are seduced by contracts that increase perceived benefits, without actually providing more benefits, and decrease perceived costs, without actually reducing the costs that consumers ultimately bear. Competition does not help this behavioural market failure. It may even exacerbate it. Sellers, operating in a competitive market, have no choice but to align contract design with the psychology of consumers. A high-road seller who offers what she knows to be the best contract will lose business to the low-road seller who offers what the consumer mistakenly believes to be the best contract. Put bluntly, competition forces sellers to exploit the biases and misperceptions of their customers. Seduction by Contract argues that better legal policy can help consumers and enhance market efficiency. Disclosure mandates provide a promising avenue for regulatory intervention. Simple, aggregate disclosures can help consumers make better choices. Comprehensive disclosures can facilitate the work of intermediaries, enabling them to better advise consumers. Effective disclosure would expose the seductive nature of consumer contracts and, as a result, reduce sellers' incentives to write inefficient contracts. Developing its explanation through a general framework and detailed case studies of three major consumer markets (credit cards, mortgages, and cell phones), Seduction by Contract is an accessible introduction to the law and economics of consumer contracts, and a powerful critique of current regulatory policy.
Download or read book Spectrum Policy in the Age of Broadband written by Linda K. Moore and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The convergence of wireless telecomm. technology and Internet protocols is fostering new generations of mobile technologies. This transformation has created new demands for advanced commun. infrastructure and radio frequency spectrum capacity that can support high-speed, content-rich uses. Wireless technologies support public safety commun., sensors, smart grids, med. and public health, intelligent transport. systems, etc. This report considers the possibility of modifying spectrum policy: (1) to support broadband deployment by placing more emphasis on attracting new providers of wireless broadband services; and (2) to accommodate the wireless broadband needs of industries that are considered to be the economic drivers of the future. Illus.
Download or read book Information Needs of Communities written by Steven Waldman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an info. and commun. renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical info. about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the info. needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. This report by the FCC Working Group on the Info. Needs of Communities addresses the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. Contents: Media Landscape; The Policy and Regulatory Landscape; Recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Telecommunications written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telecommunications: FCC Should Include Call Quality in Its Annual Report on Competition in Mobile Phone Services
Download or read book Newton s Telecom Dictionary written by Harry Newton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines the terminology of the communication and computer industries for the non-technical user.
Download or read book Telecommunications Enhanced Data Collection Could Help FCC Better Monitor Competition in the Wireless Industry written by Mark Goldstein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans increasingly rely on wireless phones, with nearly 40% of households now using them primarily or solely. Under federal law, the FCC is responsible for fostering a competitive wireless marketplace while ensuring that consumers are protected from harmful practices. This report discusses changes in the wireless industry since 2000, stakeholders' perceptions of regulatory policies and industry practices, and the strategies FCC uses to monitor competition. To conduct this work, the report conducted case studies in both rural and urban areas of four states; and interviewed stakeholders representing consumers, local and state agencies and officials, and various segments of the industry. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
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Download or read book Where is the FCC s Annual Video Competition Report written by Barbara S. Esbin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is required by the 1992 Cable Act to produce an "Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming," otherwise known as the "Annual Video Competition Report." These annual reports are eagerly awaited not merely by lawmakers but everyone who monitors developments in the video marketplace. Twelve installments of the Annual Video Competition Report have been produced since the requirement took effect, but the 13th annual report has inexplicably been stuck in regulatory limbo for almost two years. When the report comes out, it will reflect the state of the video marketplace as of June 30, 2006, which is when the last reporting cycle ended. It is difficult to avoid speculating that one cause of delay is its failure to provide the critical empirical support for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's "70/70" plan for expanding the Commission's powers over the cable industry, a plan that was widely discussed in the weeks leading up to the report's adoption last November. Importantly, however, when the FCC voted on the latest annual report at that November meeting, the agency did released a handful of encouraging findings from the report, albeit without much fanfare. Vertical integration has fallen steadily since the first Annual Video Competition Report was issued. Most new pay TV channels today are independently owned and offer an unprecedented diversity of programming options. The summary of the upcoming report also mentioned that although cable continues to serve the largest percentage of MVPD subscribers, its market share had fallen to approximately 68.2 percent as of June 2006 and that market share of cable's largest competitor, DBS service, had increased as of June 2006 to 29 percent. These trends are a strong sign of how healthy and vibrantly competitive this marketplace is today.
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