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...

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...

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 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...

Fifty years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter warned the Federal Communications Commission not to view 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...