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Talk is Cheap - The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (Paperback)
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Talk is Cheap - The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (Paperback)
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The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's
telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics
cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and
sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of
providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the
same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone
companies with a wide array of new market opportunities.
Unfortunately, their status as regulated carriers makes it
difficult to exploit these new opportunities and to fend off
competitive assaults on their traditional telephone business. As
long as they are regulated, they can be accused of using their
monopoly services to cross-subsidize new competitive ventures. But
partial deregulation and open entry would be a catastrophe for them
unless they were allowed to revise their rate structure. There is a
widespread misconception that the U.S. telecommunications industry
has been " deregulated" and that Canadian authorities are following
the U.S. lead. In fact, most services remain regulated, even though
some markets, such as long-distance services, equipment sales and
rentals, and local services, have been opened up. This book reviews
the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian
telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy
on both sides of the border. The authors analyze the effects of
these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local
and long-distance markets with particular emphasis on the impacts
of regulatory reforms and competition on long-distance rates. They
use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to
allow competition to replacemonopoly on the road to the information
superhighway. The authors contend that for decades misguided
regulation of the telephone sector in both Canada and the U.S.
denied consumers the benefits of competition, distorted local and
long-distance telephone rates, and blocked entry of new carriers
and new technologies. They warn that the continued regulation of
the telecommunications industry could be responsible for slowing
the transition from " plain old telephone service" to a
telecommunications marketplace that offers a wide variety of
services. They conclude by outlining the choices open to
policymakers and calling for liberalized competition all along the
information superhighway.
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