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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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content and broadband providers. While proponents of such regulation may view it as protection from alleged anticompetitive …
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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050797
substantial risks that Carterfone-type regulation would commoditize wireless network services in a way that could substantially …
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This Policy Paper demonstrates that policies that hinder a new entrant's ability to sell video programming, such as forcing entrants to obtain a local cable franchise agreement, will strongly diminish that entrant's incentive to deploy fiber to low-income households. Using publicly-available...
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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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Over the past twenty years we have seen the emergence of an important phenomenon in the practice of modern regulation …. Also, regulation “as practiced” now may allow an administrative agency to expand greatly its power beyond its statutory …
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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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consumers and businesses directly affected by such regulation. The analysis also shows that over time unbundled loop prices are …
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.g., reconditioning of nuclear or coal-fired power plants) that any test that bases regulation upon a "new" versus "old" distinction … either grandfather themselves into more favorable regulation or, alternatively, to escape onerous legacy regulation to …
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