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‘Regulatory Revival’ and Employment in Telecommunications

Ford, George S. - 2017

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 …

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Set it and Forget it? Market Power and the Consequences of Premature Deregulation in Telecommunications Markets

Ford, George S.; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2014

market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications ….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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Flow-Through and Competition in the International Message Telephone Service Market

Ford, George S. - 2004

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

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Tariffing Internet Termination : Pricing Implications of Classifying Broadband as a Title II Telecommunications Service

Ford, George S. - 2015

access as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. Yet, almost no attention has …

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Regulation and investment in the U.S. telecommunications industry

Ford, George S. - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 56, pp. 6073-6084

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Unnecessary Regulations and the Value of Spectrum : An Economic Evaluation of Lease Term Limits for the Educational Broadband Service

Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas - 2006

Licensed to nonprofit educational entities, the 2500-2690 MHz band of spectrum has been plagued by overly intrusive governmental policy since its inception over forty years ago. As a consequence, this spectrum is woefully underutilized. In 2004, the Federal Communications Commission recognized...

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Equalizing Competition Among Competitors : A Review of the DOJ's Spectrum Screen Ex Parte Filing

Ford, George S. - 2013

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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A Policy Framework for Spectrum Allocation in Mobile Communications

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Ford, George S.; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2012

With the National Broadband Plan’s promise of an additional 500 MHz of spectrum for commercial purposes, the question of how to allocate those resources among competing uses and users will dominate the communications policy debate over the coming years. In this policy paper, we provide a...

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Do High Call Termination Rates Deter Broadband Deployment?

Beard, Thomas Randolph - 2013

In this paper, we attempt to shed light on an important policy question: Does the current way by which providers compensate each other for the exchange of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), wireless, local, and long distance calls inhibit broadband deployment? This question is timely, as the...

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Using Auction Results to Forecast the Impact of Wireless Carterfone Regulation on Wireless Networks (Second Edition)

Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013

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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