Download or read book The Pricing of Local Telephone Service written by James H. Alleman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pricing Structure of Local Telephone Service written by James H. Alleman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Telephone Pricing and Universal Telephone Service written by Rolla Edward Park and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Telephone Industry written by Peyton L. Wynns and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications written by Peter F. Guerrero and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of current federal and state universal service support programs and discusses the potential impact of emerging Internet-based voice communications on how these programs are funded. The long-standing goal of universal service -- affordable residential telephone service for all Americans -- has resulted in a variety of federal and state support programs. Over the years, these programs have evolved as the telephone industry's structure changed and universal service benefits were extended to new groups, such as schools and libraries. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Local Telephone Rate Increases written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Telephone Rates written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Changes in the Telecommunications Industry on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Special Task Force on the Impact of Telephone Costs and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospects for Universal Telephone Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Pays for Universal Service written by Robert W. Crandall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote "universal service," but Crandall and Waverman show that it has little effect on telephone subscriptions while it has major harmful effects on the value of all telephone service. The higher prices for long distance calls reduce calling, shift the burden of paying for the network to those whose social networks are widely dispersed. Therefore, many poor and rural households--the intended beneficiaries of the pricing strategy--are forced to pay far more for telephone service than they would if prices reflected the cost of service. Despite these burdens, Congress has extended the subsidies to advanced services for schools, libraries, and rural health facilities. Crandall and Waverman show that other regulated utilities are not burdened with similarly inefficient cross-subsidy schemes, yet universality of water, natural gas, and electricity service is achieved. As local telephone service competition develops in the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the universal-service subsidy system will have to change. Subsidies will have to be paid from taxes on telecom services and paid directly to carriers or subscribers. Crandall and Waverman show that an intrastate tax designed to pay for each state's subsidized subscriptions is far less costly to the economy than an interstate tax. Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Leonard Waverman is a visiting professor at the London Business School, on leave from the University of Toronto. They are coauthors of Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (Brookings, 1995).
Download or read book Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications Federal and State Universal Service Programs and Challenges to Funding written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title 1 of the Communications Act of 1934 sets forth the nation's telecommunications policy, including making communication services available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States. Early efforts by FCC, state regulators, and industry to promote universal service generally began in the 1950s. At that time, increasing amounts of the costs associated with providing local telephone service were recovered from rates for long distance services. This had the effect of lowering local telephone rates and raising long distance rates, which was intended to make basic local telephone service more affordable. Because American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)provided both nationwide long distance service and local telephone service to approximately 80 percent of the nation's telephone subscribers, universal service was largely promoted by shifting costs between different customers and services.
Download or read book Talk is Cheap written by Robert W. Crandall and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Universal Telephone Service Rural America written by Daniel J. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of providing local telephone service in many rural areas greatly exceeds rates billed to customers. The Bell companies and other large independent local carriers overcome high rural costs by averaging rates between urban to rural markets. Smaller carriers with largely rural markets are supported through explicit subsidies funded through levies on interstate voice services. We use Decennial Census data at the census block group level to assess the comparative performance of different classes of carrier in rural areas, and to compare the effectiveness of different policy measures. Telephone penetration has grown significantly since 1990, and the greatest gains are among historically disadvantaged groups. The efficacy of all universal service subsidies is low and declining over time as the programs themselves have grown. Support targeted to individuals remains more effective than support for high cost companies, even in rural areas. Independent carriers' subscribership rates lag the Bell carriers, although the deficit has narrowed significantly since 1990. Rural areas, whether served by Bell companies or Independents, have seen greater subscribership gains since 1990 than urban areas.
Download or read book Report to the Legislature on Universal Telephone Service to Residential Customers written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to the Legislature on Measured Rates for Telephone Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Telephone Service written by Maine. Legislature. Joint Standing Committee on Utilities and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
