After a brief discussion on expected and actual investment behavior in the telecommunications industry after the 1996 … Act, an econometric model is used to quantify the relationship between UNE-P competition and Bell Operating Company … investments in telecommunications plant. Using publicly-available Federal Communications Commission data, a positive relationship …

In this brief Policy Paper, the incentives of the Bell Companies to promote "real competition" by eliminating the … Network Element Platform message is not driven by a desire for "real competition," but an effort to shift competitive entry … of competition into the local exchange market. Policymakers, at least wise policymakers, should not ignore this fact …

competition in an abstract, sterile way. To illustrate the dangers of using such an abstract approach to the key issue of ILEC … market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications … services as a case study, wherein the Commission abandoned its own general framework for competition analysis in favor of using …

One of the most contentious debates in modern telecommunications policy regards whether or not a regulatory mandated …

This Policy Bulletin measures the gains to consumer welfare of the new "all distance"/"all you can eat" competition … produced by the market-opening provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Analysis reveals that the consumer welfare …

.S.-originated International Message Telecommunications Service (IMTS) traffic. (See Lawrence J. Spiwak, From International Competitive Carrier to … the WTO: A Survey of the FCC's International Telecommunications Policy Initiatives 1985-1998, 51 Fed. Comm. L.J. 111 (1998 … parties representing over 100 foreign governments, regulators, and telecommunications companies - upheld the FCC's Benchmarks …

Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (“BLS”) data on industry employment, I quantify the effect on telecommunications … jobs of the Obama Administration's regulatory revival in telecommunications using the difference-in-differences (“DiD …”) estimator. I find that over the period 2010-2016, the telecommunications sector lost approximately 100,000 jobs per year …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …