Author: Barbara A. Cherry Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135687978 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
This book is the outgrowth of shared interests between the editors and the contributing authors to provide a multidisciplinary perspective in evaluating universal service policy and recommending policy changes to accommodate a more competitive telecommunications environment. The book is interdisciplinary in nature to reflect the extremely complex context in which universal service policy is formed. The chapter authors represent a broad cross-section of disciplinary training, professional positions, and relationships in the telecommunications industry. Academic disciplines represented include law, economics, anthropology, communication, and business. This book's purpose is to significantly enhance the development of effective telecommunications universal service policy among policymakers, industry members, and stakeholders in the United States. Universal service policy has been, and will continue to be, both enabled and constrained by the simultaneous interaction of social, political, technological, and economic forces in the environment in which it is formed. A more effective process for policy design is to seek agreement on how entitlements embedded in universal service policy should be modified as circumstances invariably change over time. Therefore, the volume reflects recent significant developments in U.S. universal service policy--the implementation of which continues to unfold.
Author: Milton Mueller Publisher: MIT Press (MA) ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
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Author: Cristina Murroni Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research ISBN: 9781860300103 Category : Telecommunication policy Languages : en Pages : 36
Author: Donald Gale Publisher: Universal-Publishers ISBN: 1581123221 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 177
Book Description
The telecommunications industry has evolved into a very competitive industry since 1980. Aggressive competition is the norm in the long distance, equipment, operator services and many other segments of the industry. The remaining segment of the market without widespread meaningful competition is the "last-mile" wireline service to the customer premise. Incumbent local exchange carriers enjoy a monopoly to serve nearly all residences and most business customers, collecting over 99% of all local exchange service revenues. Using their monopoly status, incumbents have developed a cross-subsidy system which uses the rates paid by some customers to lower the rates paid by others to support a policy known as "universal service." This policy has resulted in telephone service reaching 94% of America's households. Carriers claim that this policy cost them $20 billion annually, potential entrants claim the true cost is as low as $4 billion and the rest is profit. In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress ordered the end of the local exchange monopoly and opened the local markets to competition. Congress also specified the continuation of universal service, specified that telephone penetration should be increased and specified that the universal service concept will be applied to America's schools, libraries and rural health centers. Congress also specified that, unlike today, all carriers will contribute fairly and equitably fairly to the universal service fund and that all carriers providing local service, including new competitors, will be eligible to receive support from the fund. The cost to meet these requirements in a competitive environment totals $7.2 billion, or 5.1% of net carrier revenue. This thesis addresses the definition of universal service and the services that should be eligible for support, the new competitive environment, how to collect the universal service support fund, and how to best distribute the funds to customers targeted to receive support from the system: those in high-cost areas, low-income consumers, and schools and libraries for advanced communications services.
Author: Milton Mueller Publisher: American Enterprise Institute ISBN: 9780844740638 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
This book revisits the critical period of unbridled competition between the Bell System and independent telephone companies early in this century.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Publisher: ISBN: Category : Rural telecommunication Languages : en Pages : 164
Author: Peter F. Guerrero Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 9780756724863 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
Provides an overview of current federal and state universal service support programs and discusses the potential impact of emerging Internet-based voice communications on how these programs are funded. The long-standing goal of universal service -- affordable residential telephone service for all Americans -- has resulted in a variety of federal and state support programs. Over the years, these programs have evolved as the telephone industry's structure changed and universal service benefits were extended to new groups, such as schools and libraries. Charts and tables.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 138
Author: Jean-Jacques Laffont Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262621502 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
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: Lorelei St. James Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437945023 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 74
Book Description
The FCC¿s Low-Income Program, administered by the Universal Service Administrative Co. and supported by the Universal Service Fund, provides low-income households with discounts on installation costs for new telephone service and monthly charges for basic telephone service. This report examined: (1) how program participation and support payments have changed over the last 5 years (2005-2009), and factors that may have affected participation; (2) the extent to which goals and measures are used to manage the program; and (3) the extent to which mechanisms are in place to evaluate program risks and monitor controls over compliance with program rules. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables. A print on demand report.
Author: Barbara A. Cherry
Author: Milton Mueller
Author: Cristina Murroni
Author: Donald Gale
Author: Milton Mueller
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
Author: Peter F. Guerrero
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
Author: Jean-Jacques Laffont
Author: Lorelei St. James