Telecommunications competition : the last ten miles
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Telecommunications competition : the last ten miles
(AEI studies in telecommunications deregulation)
MIT Press , AEI Press, 1997
Available at 24 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-347) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The "last ten miles" - the local and short distance telecommunications markets - of the telecommunications industry where competition is still held back are the target of this study. The authors argue that more competitive conditions are inevitable because of developing technological, market, and regulatory factors. In this book they review all the current information a communications analyst should know about telecommunications technology and network structure and their relationship to the evolution of the local market. They also explain the regulatory landscape and policy logic surrounding the local market, and include a case study of the British experience with local market regulation. Technology has diminished distance sensitivity, moderated economies of scale, and reduced total costs. At the same time, market demands have vastly increased. As a result, technical barriers to entry are falling quickly, leaving the subsidized rate systems for local exchange carriers as the largest remaining hurdle for local competition.
Vogelsang and Mitchell predict that a key to effective local competition will be the interconnection framework that gives new competitors access to customers of established local exchange carriers and the regulatory background to protect such access. As those arrangements evolve, the authors argue that cross-subsidies will lose their viability and local competition will grow.
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