Designing Competition Policy for Telecommunications

Policy-induced competition: the telecommunications experiments

Introduction: Telephony has been the great “natural monopoly” of mid-century America. Early in the twentieth century, the policy of regulated monopoly for telephone was established; state and Federal regulation were based on this paradigm. By the late 1950s, there was some evidence that technology could be undermining the basis of this policy, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) beg...

Competition Policy for the Telecommunications Industry a Guide for Policymakers

20 years of experience in the areas of government regulation, competition policy and business strategy. He has testified in numerous regulatory proceedings to the economic and social impacts of regulatory policies and has served as an economic consultant to Fortune 500 Corporations and regulatory commissions on economic pricing principles, the design of incentive regulation plans and competitio...

Competition and Globalization Brazilian Telecommunications Policy at Crossroads

The current pattern of competition in the Brazilian telecommunications market was defined by a regulatory reform implemented in the second half of the nineties. The telecommunications regulatory reform discussed in the paper promoted the privatization of Telebras System and fostered competition in the Brazilian market under the stricted supervision of the new regulator Anatel. Notwithstanding, ...

Platform Competition in Telecommunications

Adjusting Regulation to Competition: Toward a New Model for U.S. Telecommunications Policy

id=894346. 169 Id. 170 Id.; Philippe Aghion et al., Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship (Nat'l Bureau of Econ. Research, Working Paper No. 9269, 2002). 171 See Howard A. Shelanski, Competition and Deployment of New Technology in U.S. Telecommunications, 2000 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 85, 116 (2000). Yale Journal on Regulation C. Precedent and History Support a Deregulatory Shift Histo...