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Cable Modems and DSL : Broadband Internet Access for Residential Customers
Hausman, Jerry A.; Sidak, J. Gregory; Singer, Hal J. - 2013
To date, most residential customers to the Internet have used dial-up modems with a top speed of about 56.6 kbps [kilobits per second]. In the past two years broadband access has become available via cable modems offered by the local unregulated cable provider and via digital subscriber lines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121527
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The Empirical Case Against Asymmetric Regulation of Broadband Internet Access
Sidak, J. Gregory; Crandall, Robert W.; Singer, Hal J. - 2009
Internet access service is not a telecommunications service, subject to numerous regulations applicable to ILECs, but rather an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119601
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A Short Note on Scotland's Future – The Internet, Broadband and Telecommunications
Sutherland, Ewan - 2013
broadband, Internet and telecommunications remain vague and without a timetable. There would be a junior minister within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151254
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The Internet and 'Telecommunications Services,' Access Charges, Universal Service Mechanisms and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System
Weinberg, Jonathan - 2015
? In particular, to what extent should (or can) regulators impose existing telecommunications regulation, including the … snarl of cross-subsidies that dominates the telephone system, on IP networks?At the heart of existing telecommunications … regulation is the distinction between quot;telecommunications service,quot; whose providers are subject to FCC common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708326
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Deregulating Telecommunications in Internet Time
Speta, James B. - 2013
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has yielded more litigation and less local competition than its supporters expected … framework for reform. The successful deregulations of the transportation industries and of long-distance telecommunications … telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068712
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Competition and Regulatory Policies for Interactive Broadband Networks
Sidak, J. Gregory; Crandall, Robert W. - 2009
services should be regulated. In Part VII, our discussion turns to the Canadian telecommunications market because of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127472
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Multisided Markets & Platform Dominance
Alleman, James; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113480
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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market
Alleman, James H. - 2021
Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804859
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151937
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Service Bundling and the Role of Access Charge in the Broadband Internet Service Market
Oh, Jungsuk - 2015
Using the classical Hotelling model, this paper analyzes the incentive for a CATV service provider to bundle broadband internet services when entering the broadband internet services market. In addition, the effect of such service bundling by an entrant on the market incumbent with ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049867