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This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history … telecommunications with Internet and broadcasting services. The criteria used by the regulatory authorities to identify those network … with respect to some broadband access markets while in Europe, a severe tendency to overregulation is observed …
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As the Internet becomes m ... …
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The Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, in the course of considering mergers and acquisitions as well as other policy matters, have conducted detailed investigations of the wired broadband business, and the intertwined business of providing linear programming....
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through a period of significant regulatory transformation in the area of high-speed, broadband Internet regulation. This paper … will describe some of the key elements and principles that created the modern Internet architecture, including the end … shape the FCC transformation, culminating with the FCC’s recent adoption of net neutrality rules found in the Open Internet …
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Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected …. The present paper will examine and compare properties of telecommunications networks for both the United States and Europe … factors may be used to explain differences in network structures between the United States and Europe. In addition, the paper …
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This article examines the issue of the appropriate scope of review of economic evidence enshrined in the discretionary assessments of utility regulators in the US and the UK. It advances a balance of institutional competencies approach to the question of the degree of deference owed to the...
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As the information age progresses, the need for cheap, easy Internet access increases if we want citizens to be able to … provide Internet access via wireless Internet networks. So far, these efforts have met with limited success at best, and, at … to interfere with the private market for Internet service, the public good inherent in universal service outweighs these …
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Network neutrality (NN) regulations governing how broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs) package and price high … of the Internet, protecting innovation at the edge. Opponents argue that such rules are unnecessary and could block … have been subject to open access rules, analogous to NN regulation, that have varied across time and technologies. These …
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Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
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