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Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access?
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by Aei-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Robert W. Crandall, and James H. Alleman
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press January 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0815715919
ISBN-13: 978-0815715917
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Book Description
There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed "broadband" Internet connections for residential and small-business customers, the demand for IT equipment and new Internet service applications may stagnate.
Broadband policy is controversial in large part because of the differences in the regulatory regimes faced by different types of carriers. Cable television companies face neither retail price regulation of their cable modem services nor any requirements to make their facilities available to competitors. Local telephone companies, on the other hand, face both retail price regulation for their DSL service and a requirement imposed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act that they "unbundle" their network facilities and lease them to rivals. Finally, new entrants are largely unregulated, but many rely on facilities leased from the incumbent telephone companies at regulated rates to connect to their customers. This asymmetric regulation is the focus of this volume, in which telecommunications scholars address the public policy issues that have arisen over the deployment of new high-speed telecommunications services.
--This text refers to the
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edition.
About The Author
Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution.
James H. Alleman is an associate professor in interdisciplinary telecommunications at the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, on leave at Columbia University.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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