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A vertically integrated firm that wholesales to its retail rivals can, if it has sufficient market power, set the margin between its retail and wholesale prices so as to harm its rivals. Conventionally, an imputation test is used to determine whether such behavior is being undertaken. Such tests...
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panel data that describes household Internet usage before and after broadband adoption. Our data suggests that on average …
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broadband, Internet and telecommunications remain vague and without a timetable. There would be a junior minister within a …
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NGA development continues to be constrained by the very high financial burden yet to be overcome. Competitive network rollout is not likely to happen outside of very densely populated areas for a foreseeable future. Regulators must strike the right balance between procompetition measures and...
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Access to the internet is critical for participating in modern society, yet, 17% of Americans lack access to broadband … internet, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A key objective of the FCC is to promote policies that … secured funding to provide subsidies to internet service providers on a massive scale, and has been given considerable …
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Few phrases in public policy have become so overused so quickly as the information highway. Although it is unclear to many what that superhighway is or will be, this uncertainty has not prevented proposals to regulate the superhighway from being made. In this Article, we examine the economic...
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regulations and their impact on the deployment of high-speed Internet access are evaluated. It is argued that facilities …
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This note analyzes the 2015 Open Internet Order by contextualizing the development of network neutrality jurisprudence … and predicts that the Open Internet Order would withstand judicial scrutiny if challenged under the Administrative …
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The FCC’s recent Restoring Internet Freedom Order reclassified broadband Internet access service from a … Supreme Court has previously set out in Brand X a specific test for determining whether Internet access service is a … telecommunications service, and that test states that the determination turns on the factual particulars of how Internet technology works …
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"Open access" regulation mandates openness of conduits (e.g. upgraded cable television) to service providers (e.g. America Online), but policy discussion often suggests that the ultimate goal is openness to advanced content (streaming video, interactive e-commerce, etc.). We introduce a systems...
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