Download or read book Telecommunications Deregulation and the Information Economy written by James Shaw and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive economic examination of the global competitive restructuring that is now occurring as a result of the US Telecommunications Act 1996. The book guides the reader to the most effective methods of building and enhancing competitive advantage in new markets.
Download or read book Telecommunications Deregulation written by James Shaw and published by Artech House Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop the economic and planning knowledge you need to successfully bring new products to market in the potentially unstable environment to telecommunications deregulation. This ground-breaking book presents the full interpretation of the law, evaluates the US Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 in its entirety, and addresses the economic implications for prospective market restructuring, impending competition, and strategic planning.
Download or read book Telecommunications and Its Impact on the New England Economy 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 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons from Deregulation written by Alfred E. Kahn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-12-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important—and most visible—to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree), their difficulties have raised the question of whether their deregulation should be reconsidered or even reversed. Alfred E. Kahn, one of the foremost authorities on deregulation, argues in this book that every passing year demonstrates the superiority of the road chosen for the airlines. He contrasts the financial meltdowns of both the airline and telecommunications industries with others taking place at the same time, particularly in technology-related stocks and "dot.coms," pointing out that these sectors were also relatively free of direct economic regulation. Their experience provides a useful counter to the natural tendency to blame all the woes of aviation and telecommunications on government policy. This book provides a valuable and accessible guide to unraveling the complex world of network deregulation. It will serve as a reference point for practioners and policymakers, as well as an important introduction for the general public.
Download or read book Communications Deregulation and FCC Reform Finishing the Job written by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communications markets have made much progress towards competition and deregulation in recent years. However, it is increasingly clear, in the age of the Internet and the digital revolution, that much more needs to be done, and that new approaches, both at the Federal Communications Commission and in Congress, will be required to complete the task. In this volume, the Progress and Freedom Foundation presents nine papers by communications policy experts and government policymakers that show how to finish the job of deregulating communications markets and reforming the FCC. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was a landmark piece of legislation for an industry moving from a monopoly orientation towards competition, but additional steps are needed to complete the process of implementing the pro-competitive, deregulatory vision of the act. Bringing together a group of the caliber represented in this book makes possible the best recommendations about the exact nature of those necessary changes. In this volume, the most difficult and politically-charged hot-button issues involving local and long distance competition, universal service, spectrum allocation, program content regulation, and the public interest doctrine are confronted head-on. As importantly, the authors recommend specific reform proposals to be considered by the Federal Communications Commission and Congress. The ideas contained in the experts' essays were presented and debated at a conference hosted by The Progress & Freedom Foundation, which was held in Washington, DC, on December 8, 2000. The Progress & Freedom Foundation studies the impact of the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. It conducts research in fields such as electronic commerce, telecommunications and the impact of the Internet on government, society and economic growth. It also studies issues such as the need to reform government regulation, especially in technology-intensive fields such as medical innovation, energy and environmental regulation.
Download or read book Regulators Revenge written by Tom W. Bell and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has failed to fulfill its deregulatory promise. The act in many cases has replaced regulated monopoly with eerily similar regulated competition. Only markets that are truly free will innovate and remain healthy in the long run. These essays suggest how to move toward free markets in telecommunications.
Download or read book Telecom Deregulation and the Economy written by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous studies have demonstrated that investment in telecommunications infrastructure and other forms of information technology is the primary cause of the acceleration in productivity growth, which began in the late 1990s and has continued, unabated, to the present. Economists also recognize that government policies have a major impact on the performance of the heavily regulated telecommunications sector. The Federal Communications Commission and state public utility commissions continue to regulate telecommunications prices at both the retail and wholesale levels, and to impose upon incumbent carriers a complex array of sharing requirements. These rules, known as the "Unbundled Network Element" or "UNE" rules, require incumbent firms to lease their facilities to competitors at prices specified by the FCC and state commissions. One form of UNE, "UNE-P," allows competitors to lease virtually all of the facilities needed to provide service, thereby avoiding the need to make any significant investment of their own. Many economists believe these rules discourage investment in new facilities. In this study, we examine the empirical evidence on the impact of UNE rules on telecommunications investment. While the studies we review utilize different techniques, rely on different data and analyze different variables, they are nearly unanimous in finding that the UNE regime does indeed deter investment. We estimate that UNE reform would increase GDP by between $14.3 billion and $33.9 billion, and create between 94,000 and 223,000 jobs, in the first year after adoption. In three years (i.e. by year-end 2005), GDP would rise by between $42.9 billion and $101.7 billion, and the economy would have created between 282,000 and 669,000 additional jobs.
Download or read book The Changing Nature of Telecommunications Information Infrastructure written by Steering Committee on the Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-04-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications.
Download or read book Telecommunications Deregulation Issues and Impacts written by Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deregulation of Network Industries written by Sam Peltzman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the airline, railroad, telecommunications, and electric power industries are at very different stages in adjusting to regulatory reform, each industry faces the same critical public policy question: Are policymakers taking appropriate steps to stimulate competition or are they turning back the clock by slowing the process of deregulation? This volume addresses that issue and identifies the next steps that policymakers should take to enhance public welfare in the provision of these services. Each chapter identifies the central policy issues that have arisen in each industry as it undergoes transformation to a deregulated environment. The authors reveal the flaws in the residual regulations and make the case for faster and more comprehensive deregulation. A concluding chapter identifies how interest groups continue to exert influence on regulatory agencies and on Congress, potentially undermining deregulation. The papers included here were initially presented in December 1999 at a conference sponsored and organized by the AEI–Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.
Download or read book Status of Competition and Deregulation in the Telecommunications Industry 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 1981 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition and Deregulation in Telecommunications written by Thomas James Duesterberg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to this book, the anticipated benefits of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are proving elusive, as competiton has been slow to rise, and government agencies have been slow to implement the deregulation and market-opening processes specified in the new law. The authors argue that the pace of innovation and the telecom industry's demonstrated capacity to restructure itself efficiently show that the benefits of competition far outweigh the costs of trying to micromanage the industry through regulation.
Download or read book Competition and Chaos written by Robert W. Crandall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1996 Telecommunications Act was an attempt to increase competition among telecommunications providers in the United States by reducing regulatory barriers to market entry. This competition was expected to drive innovation in the telecommunications sector and reap economic benefits for both American consumers and telecommunications providers. The legislation, however, had a markedly different impact. While many of the more aggressive providers enjoyed sharp short-term rises in stock market values, they soon faced sudden collapse, leaving consumers with little or no long-term benefit. In Competition and Chaos, Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 act on economic welfare in the United States and how the act and its antecedents affected the major telecommunications providers. He argues that the act was far too stringent, inviting the Federal Communications Commission and state regulators to micromanage competitive entry into local telecommunications markets. Combined with the bursting of the dot.com and telecom stock market bubbles, this aggressive policy invited new and existing firms to invest billions of dollars unwisely, leading to the 2001–02 collapse of equity values throughout the sector. New entrants into the market invested more than $50 billion in unproductive assets that were quickly wiped out through massive failures. The 1996 act allowed the independent long-distance companies, such as MCI and AT&T, to live a few years longer. But today they are a threatened species, caught in a downward spiral of declining prices and substantial losses. The industry is preparing for an intense battle for market share among three sets of carriers: the wireless companies, the local telephone carriers, and the cable television businesses. Each has its own particular advantage in one of the three major segments of the market—voice, data, and video—but none is assured a clear path to dominance. Although the telecom stock market collapse i
Download or read book The Irony of Regulatory Reform written by Robert Britt Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Telephone Companies in Paradise written by Milton Mueller and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, the state of Nebraska completely discarded traditional utility regulation, deregulating rates and profits of its local telephone companies. The Nebraska experiment has become a benchmark for reassessing the role of state regulation in the future of telecommunications. Using comparative data from five midwestern states, Mueller shows how deregulation affected rates, investment, infrastructure modernization, and profits. He uncovers both positive and negative results. Mueller found established telephone companies to be basically conservative, not aggressive and expansionist, and concludes that new competition, not regulation or deregulation, is transforming the telecommunications industry.
Download or read book Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation written by Jerry A. Hausman and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1996 Telecommunications Act requires telecommunications carriers to subsidize Internet services to schools and libraries. Hausman shows that the FCC's proposed tax to subsidize those services is economically inefficient.
Download or read book Marketplace for Telecommunications written by Marcellus S. Snow and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
