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Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Telecommunications; communications; data processing; predatory pricing; economies of scope; Green Paper on Telecommunications
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A Comparative Study Of The Regulatory Treatment Of Enhanced Services In The United States And The European Community, Steven M. Spaeth
A Comparative Study Of The Regulatory Treatment Of Enhanced Services In The United States And The European Community, Steven M. Spaeth
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The telecommunications industry and the data processing industry have become integral parts of the world economy. Furthermore, over the years, these services have come to complement each other. The result has been the development of services which are made up of both communications and data processing components. For the past twenty years, the FCC has struggled to develop rules that will allow common carriers in the United States to take advantage of their economies of scope while preventing or minimizing the pernicious effects of cross-subsidization and bottlenecks. As a result, complicated rules, and definitions attempting to draw a line between …