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This paper considers what limited roles the FCC may lawfully assume to ensure timely and fair interconnection and compensation agreements in the Internet ecosystem. The paper examines the FCC’s limited role in broadcaster-cable television retransmission consent negotiations with an eye toward...
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The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television …) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the … services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now …
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comparison made to approaches to net neutrality in other parts of the world, such as the USA, where a fierce debate has been …
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Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
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Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366153
Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five … regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. In particular, some regulation should persist for net neutrality in the …
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The importance of connectivity is growing across the world as the need for access to information and communication … entry regulation and public ownership to explain the observed connectivity gap. …
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Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five … regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. In particular, some regulation should persist for net neutrality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315646
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on broadband quality...
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810060