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Competition and Bell Company Investment in Telecommunications Plant : The Effects of Une-P
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073373
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073823
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Federalism in Telecommunications Regulation : Effectiveness and Accuracy of State Commission Implementation of Telric in Local Telecoms Markets
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004
This Policy Bulletin makes use of regression analysis to demonstrate that differences in UNE-P prices both across States and within States are due to genuine cost differences and differences in TELRIC, and are not because of regulatory failure by the States. These findings confirm an obvious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072663
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The $10 Billion Benefit of Unbundling : Consumer Surplus Gains from Competitive Pricing Innovations
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073455
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Competition after Unbundling : Entry, Industry Structure and Convergence
Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2014
In the last few years, U.S. telecoms policy has shifted from encouraging the sharing of existing networks to facilitating the deployment of advanced communications networks. Given the large capital expenditures required for these networks, there can be only a few of such networks. In light of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063100
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Addendum, from International Competitive Carrier to the WTO : A Survey of the Fcc's International Telecommunications Policy Initiatives 1985-1998
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013
.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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071441
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Fixed-Mobile 'Intermodal' Competition in Telecommunications : Fact or Fiction?
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013
intermodal competition between fixed and wireless telephony suggests that efforts to promote intramodal competition (e ….g., unbundling mandates) remain necessary because consumer savings in wireline telephony since the passage of the Telecommunications … Act of 1996 - which are estimated to exceed $10 billion annually - are likely the result of intramodal competition between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072137
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Competition After Unbundling : Entry, Industry Structure and Convergence
Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2007
In the last few years, U.S. telecoms policy has shifted from encouraging the sharing of existing networks to facilitating the deployment of advanced communications networks. Given the large capital expenditures required for these networks, there can be only a few of such networks. In light of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050795
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In Their Own Words : A Review of Recent Bell Operating Company 10-Qs
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004
necessary to open local telecoms markets to competition. Specifically, that regulators force the BOCs to sell unbundled network … ventures. Problems at Qwest are well documented and clearly unrelated to UNE-P or the impact of competition generally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012738527
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The Truth About Telecommunications Investment after the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004
An analysis of investment by telecommunications firms before and after the 1996 Telecommunications Act reveals … collapse of facilities-based CLECs, telecommunications investment remains well above historical levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012738529