This paper examines the concomitant effects that competition, regulation, market characteristics, and corporate ownership have on the deployment of advanced telecommunications services (ATS) to business customers through the econometric analysis of a rich data set that identifies the...

This paper examines the concomitant effects that competition, regulation, market characteristics, and corporate ownership have on the deployment of advanced telecommunication services to business customers through the econometric analysis of a rich data set that identifies the competitive,...

There is growing sentiment that rate rebalancing to eliminate cross subsidies between local business and local residential telephone markets is necessary to induce efficient entry in the residential market. If the elasticity of supply with respect to the relative prices for business and...

This study examines the decisions of all incumbent local exchange companies (ILECs) in the United States to deploy advanced telecommunications services within each of their wire center serving areas. The advanced telecommunications services examined are packet switching, digital signal level...

There is growing sentiment that rate rebalancing to eliminate crosssubsidies between local business and local residential telephone marketsis necessary to induce efficient entry in the residential market. If theelasticity of supply with respect to the relative prices for businessand residential...

Technology such as the Internet is becoming an important ingredient for economic and socialadvancement. There is a growing national concern about the ability of all segments of theAmerican society to be able to access and benefit from advanced telecommunications services.In this research we...

The FCCs decision to repeal Net Neutrality governance of Internet traffic has not ended the debate over whether such protections are needed. This paper investigates the effects of changes in Net Neutrality regulation through an event study that estimates the market model with event dummies. The...

Entry will occur most rapidly in a market where entrants incur few or no sunk costs, do not operate at a cost disadvantage, and where consumers can easily switch from the incumbent to the entrant. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the speed of entry in an in industry that is highly...

At a time when choices for voice service and funding for universal service were growing, the United States experienced an unprecedented drop in household telephone penetration. Universal service in voice telephony is generally taken for granted in the United States. However, recent data from the...