Competition Policy in the Telecommunications Industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 606
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 606
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean-Jacques Laffont
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780262621502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competitionin network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools ofindustrial organization, political economy, and the economics ofincentives.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780160394980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pierre A. Buigues
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781843769767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributing to a convergence of legal and economic approaches, The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation in Telecommunications integrates economic theory into current EU antitrust policy within the sector. The book addresses the role of competition and regulatory policies on a number of key issues in telecommunications, such as market definition, collective dominance, access to networks, and allocation of scarce resources.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert W. Crandall
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2001-06-29
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780815723103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since 1971 competition has begun to replace regulation as a governing force in the telecommunications industry. The breakup of the national telephone monopolies, technological advances, and the worldwide network in telecommunications have brought a revolution in the telecommunications equipment and services industries. These changes have forced legislators and regulators to rethink public policy toward communications. The papers in this book were first presented at a conference organized by Robert Crandall and Kenneth Flamm, pulling together a group of industry professionals and scholars to address the far-reaching implications of the upheaval in the communications industry. The contributors analyze the effects of this increasing competition on standardization, technical innovation, and international rivalry. Changing the Rules offers possible policy options and analyzes their potential effects on the future market structure and the competitive positions of the U.S. computer and communications industries.
Author: Sharon E. Gillett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999-09-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1135661863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The telecommunications industry has experienced dynamic changes over the past several years, and those exciting events and developments are reflected in the chapters of this volume. The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) holds an unrivaled place at the center of national public policy discourse on issues in communications and information. TPRC is one of the few places where multidisciplinary discussions take place as the norm. The papers collected here represent the current state of research in telecommunication policy, and are organized around four topics: competition, regulation, universal service, and convergence. The contentious competition issues include bundling as a strategy in software competition, combination bidding in spectrum auctions, and anticompetitive behavior in the Internet. Regulation takes up telephone number portability, decentralized regulatory decision making versus central regulatory authority, data protection, restrictions to the flow of information over the Internet, and failed Global Information Infrastructure initiatives. Universal service addresses the persistent gap in telecommunications from a socioeconomic perspective, the availability of competitive Internet access service and cost modeling. The convergence section concentrates on the costs of Internet telephony versus circuit switched telephony, the intertwined evolution of new services, new technologies, and new consumer equipment, and the politically charged question of asymmetric regulation of Internet telephony and conventional telephone service.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 784
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Milena Stoyanova
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9041127364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative study of the role of competition law in the telecommunications industry starts from a classic perspective: While, in principle, regulation benefits social welfare and efficient allocation of resources, past regulatory experience shows that regulation can be flawed and lead to welfare harm rather than good. In the telecommunications industry specifically, inappropriately designed sector-specific remedies and regulatory delays in the introduction of new telecommunications services can hold up the development of the market towards effective competition and could incur considerable welfare losses. In addition, conventional antitrust analysis still lags behind the dynamic nature of the electronic communications markets. Milena Stoyanova sets out to establish a new understanding of the role of sector-specific regulation and competition law enforcement in the electronic communications sector, addressing such questions as the following: and Why a new regulatory framework? and Are sectoral regulation and competition law enforcement mutually exclusive or complementary? and Why should electronic communications markets be regulated to conform to competition law principles? and What does competition law add to sector-specific regulation? and What is the relationship or proportion between regulation and competition law enforcement? An overview of the telecommunications liberalization process initiated at European Community level reveals such problems as a divergent approach of national regulatory authorities in the application of one and the same norms, inability of competition authorities to rightly assess the technicalities underlying a competition problem, and difficulty in carrying out a periodical oversight of compliance with the competition law remedies. The author discusses the legal basis and rationale for the application of the essential facility doctrine to the electronic communications sector, and argues for new regulatory responses to the emergence of collective dominant firms in an oligopolistic setting and to the potential of multifirm conduct to restrict competition through price squeezing and other tactics. The book concludes with a specific case study on the harmonisation of recent Bulgarian legislation with the European Community sector-specific and competition law regimes andà propos the electronic communications sector. Effective competition in the electronic communications market is crucial for securing the dynamic role of the entire information and communications technologies sector, of which electronic communications form the largest segment. The sound and well-informed recommendations in this book ably address common and persistent problems, making Competition Problems in Liberalized Telecommunications a forward-looking mainstay for practitioners and other professionals involved in all aspects of the field.
Author: Orrin G. Hatch
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2000-05
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0788188593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines recent developments in the telecommunications industry. Witnesses: James Young, v.p. & general counsel, Bell Atlantic Corp.; James Ellis, Sr. exec. v.p. & gen. counsel, SBC Commun., Inc.; Bernard Ebbers, pres. & ceo, LDDS WorldCom; Michael Salsbury, exec. v.p. & gen. counsel, MCI Commun. Corp.; William Barr, sr. v.p. & gen. counsel, GTE Corp.; Robert Atkinson, sr. v.p., legal regulatory & exernal affairs, Teleport Communications Group, Inc.; Peter Huber, sr. fellow, Manhattan Inst. for Policy Research; Robert Crandall, Sr. fellow, Brookings Institution; Ronald Binz, pres., Competition Policy Inst.; & Dale Hatfield, ceo, Hatfield Assoc., Inc.