Technological and marketplace convergence in Information, Communications and Entertainment ("ICE") has contributed to the merger of conduit and content. Yet laws, regulations and trade policies assume a separation between the delivery of content and the creation of the content. For example, the...

This paper shows that unbundling an incumbent's infrastructure only results in a substantial improvement in broadband deployment for middle-income countries, but not for their high income counterparts. Our statistical analysis of approximately 100 countries showed that GDP per capita,...

Regulatory outcomes can vary substantially from one US state to the next. For example, at the end of 2002 regulated prices for access to the local loops of incumbent telephone networks varied from $2.79 per month in downtown Chicago, IL to $7.70 in Manhattan, NY to $12.14 in Houston, TX....