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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,...
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One important concern for the upcoming and highly-complex voluntary incentive auctions for broadcast television spectrum is the degree to which the largest mobile wireless providers will be allowed to participate. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice encouraged the Federal Communications...
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.C. Circuit recognized over twenty years ago: Complex regulation must still be credible regulation and any failure by the FCC to …
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In the last year, many advocates have called for the imposition of Carterfone regulation on the wireless industry. The … similar wireless Carterfone regulation to all commercial wireless spectrum could suppress wireless infrastructure investment … regulation across the board is likely to cause particular harm to small or medium-sized wireless firms by enhancing the role of …
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Access services. Given the present debate over expanding price regulation in this sector, the importance of market definition … on the expected economic effects of regulation is worth evaluating. In this paper, we demonstrate that if geographic … markets are “location specific” and supplied by a monopolist as the proponents of regulation claim, then price regulation …
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The Federal Communications Commission is coming under intense political pressure to reclassify broadband Internet access as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. Yet, almost no attention has been directed at the fine details of how reclassification...
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The United States has recently reinvigorated its efforts to promote ubiquitous broadband at affordable prices for all Americans by both committing over $7.2 billion in stimulus funds and by requiring the Federal Communications Commission to issue a “National Broadband Plan.” The big policy...
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Communications Commission (“FCC”) in its CALLS Order in 2000, which reduced usage based access rates and raised caps on the Subscriber Line Charge (“SLC”), a fixed, monthly fee paid by local phone company subscribers for basic connections. At present, the Commission is evaluating...
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