. Typically, new services are not subject to specific regulation, owing to the risk that this would discourage investment and … intervention to date, an equally valid response is to question the effectiveness of existing regulation. Both new entrants and … benefits for customers and reducing the need for regulation; to assess the impact of public policy on incentives to invest in …

The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television …) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the … services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now …

faced by different types of carriers. Cable television companies face neither retail price regulation of their cable modem …, face both retail price regulation for their DSL service and a requirement imposed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act that …. This asymmetric regulation is the focus of this volume, in which telecommunications scholars address the public policy …