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The Telecommunications Act of 1996: The "Costs" of Managed Competition (Hardcover, 2000 ed.) Loot Price: R2,953
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996: The "Costs" of Managed Competition (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): Dale E. Lehman, Dennis Weisman

The Telecommunications Act of 1996: The "Costs" of Managed Competition (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)

Dale E. Lehman, Dennis Weisman

Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, 36

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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the interLATA long-distance market. After close to 5 years, only one RBOC has been granted permission (controversially) to enter the interLATA market, and local competition has yet to provide most consumers with meaningful choices. In addition, the wave of mergers across the industry has raised the specter of putting the former Bell System back together again. Policymakers now openly question whether the Act can deliver what it promised. Three principal themes are developed in this book. First, there has been a coordination failure between Congress and the FCC in translating the principles embodied in the Act into practice. The authors provide evidence for this by analyzing stock market reactions to legislative and regulatory actions. This coordination failure was largely predictable, given the ambiguity in the Act, as well as conflicting jurisdictions between the FCC and the states. Second, the Act calls for wholesale prices to be based on cost.' Regulators adopted a costing standard (TELRIC) that provides a means to subsidize competitive entry in local telephone service markets. The ready adoption of the TELRIC standard by regulators is shown to be tied to the third theme: price cap regulation provides regulators with insurance' against the adverse effects of competition in local telephone markets. Statistical analysis reveals that regulators in price cap states set uniformly lower unbundled network element prices (lower barriers to entry) in comparison with regulators in rate-of-return and earnings sharing states. The result is a triumph of regulatory processes over market processes - the antithesis of the purpose of the Act.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, 36
Release date: September 2000
First published: 2000
Authors: Dale E. Lehman • Dennis Weisman
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Edition: 2000 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-7957-7
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Communications law
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LSN: 0-7923-7957-8
Barcode: 9780792379577

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