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Costs and Consequences of Federal Telecommunications Regulations

Ellig, Jerry - 2007

of forgone services. The total cost of regulation to consumers and telecommunications firms is as much as $118 billion … annually. Regulation and taxation both redistribute wealth, but regulation does more harm per dollar redistributed. Almost all … be required to redistribute the same amount of wealth as the regulation. Information on regulatory outcomes is poor. For …

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The Independence of Telecommunication Regulators

Sutherland, Ewan - 2016

In order to encourage investment in telecommunication networks, governments have been encouraged to adopt a regulatory state model, with an independent regulatory authority that is subject to a system of appeals and to parliamentary oversight, providing different forms of accountability. The...

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Multi-Networked Governance of Networks : Regulating Telecommunications in the United Kingdom

Sutherland, Ewan - 2014

. There is network governance economic regulation at the global, EU, ministerial and regulator levels, though generally …

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The Eye of the Beholder : Participation and Impact in Telecommunications (De)Regulation

Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein - 2014

The California Public Utilities Commission addressed both pricing deregulation and universal service in telecommunications during the last decade. Both decisions had a similar cast of characters, and similarly elaborate processes. In relation to price deregulation, the utilities positions were...

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Broadband and Telecommunications Markets : Policy, Regulation, and Oversight

Sutherland, Ewan - 2016

risks and rewards towards the private sector, subject to regulation. Parliamentary has oversight of policies, the regulator …

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What is Wrong with American Telecommunications?

MacAvoy, Paul W.; Sidak, J. Gregory - 2014

telecommunications and strive to avoid repeating them. Regulation of telecommunications in the United States has been embodied in a …

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The Effects of Public Ownership and Regulatory Independence on Regulatory Outcomes : A Study of Interconnect Rates in EU Telecommunications

Edwards, Geoff A.; Waverman, Leonard - 2006

of regulation on industry structure and performance …

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Lessons in Telecommunications Regulation : A Case Study of the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC (2001-2008)

Opata, Chukwudiebube - 2013

Developments in the Nigerian Telecommunications sector since the turn of the new millennium have attracted some scholarly attention across different disciplines. This article seeks to make a modest contribution to the literature by providing a general overview of regulatory developments during...

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Transplantation and Evolution of Legal Regulation of Interconnection Arrangements in the Nigerian Telecommunications Sector

Opata, Chukwudiebube - 2012

telecommunications regulation. I aim to show that the Nigerian framework has evolved in line with World Trade Organization’s (WTO … international sources of influence in the development of the current Nigerian legal framework for the regulation of … interconnection. My focus is to show how the regulation of interconnection arrangements in Nigeria has evolved over time from simply …

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Competition, regulation and broadband access to the internet

Goetz, Georg - 2011

This paper re-examines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband demand and supply. A welfare analysis asks what the...

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