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Understanding International Comparisons: 2009 Update, Scott J. Wallsten
Understanding International Comparisons: 2009 Update, Scott J. Wallsten
Scott J. Wallsten
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Broadband Opportunities For Sussex County, Troy D. Mix, David Beauchamp, Matthias Wendt
Broadband Opportunities For Sussex County, Troy D. Mix, David Beauchamp, Matthias Wendt
Troy D Mix
Highlights the opportunity for Sussex County, Delaware, to harness broadband infrastructure for economic development and recommends policy action in that regard.
Optical Fibre Access Networks And The Recession, Ewan Sutherland
Optical Fibre Access Networks And The Recession, Ewan Sutherland
Ewan Sutherland
The economic recession has been an opportunity for the telecommunications industry to call for investment in optical fibre access networks as a stimulus towards economic recovery. This argument is tested against the background of developments in Singapore, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The Need For Better Analysis Of High Capacity Services, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak
The Need For Better Analysis Of High Capacity Services, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak
GEORGE S FORD
In 1999, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) began to grant incumbent local exchange carriers (“LECs”) pricing flexibility on special access services in some Metropolitan Statistical Areas (“MSAs”) when specific evidence of competitive alternatives is present. The propriety of that deregulatory move by the FCC has been criticized by the purchasers of such services ever since. Proponents of special access price regulation rely on three central arguments to support a retreat to strict price regulation: (1) the market(s) for special access and similar services is unduly concentrated; (2) rates of return on special access services, computed using FCC ARMIS data, are …