We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks … and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …

, and satellites, and that leaves Internet Protocol transmission largely unregulated, with a future in which voice, video …? In particular, to what extent should (or can) regulators impose existing telecommunications regulation, including the … snarl of cross-subsidies that dominates the telephone system, on IP networks?At the heart of existing telecommunications …

Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary … so that all public schools and libraries in the U.S. will receive subsidized service to the Internet. The cost of the … of the higher taxation of interstate telephone services to fund the Internet access discounts. I estimate the cost to the …

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 … create, and then tariff, a termination service for Internet content under Section 203 of the Communications Act. Because a …

and its effects on telecommunications development and Internet penetration in Latin America. Relying on data from the …Unresolved regulatory issues, particularly those relating to interconnection agreements, hamper progress in Internet … adoption in Latin America.Estache, Manacorda, and Valletti review the stylized facts on regulatory reform in telecommunications …

of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America …The authors review the stylized facts on regulatory reform in telecommunications and its effects on telecommunications … development and Internet penetration in Latin America. Relying on data from the International Telecommunication Union, the …