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Letting Go? The Federal Communications Commission in the Era of Deregulation

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  • Crandall Robert W.

    (The Brookings Institution)

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Alfred Kahn's book, Letting Go: Deregulating the Process of Deregulation, suggested that regulators step aside once they have set basic rules for entry into erstwhile monopolized markets. Unfortunately, communications regulators have not heeded Professor Kahn's advice. I provide an analysis of the effects of three exercises in U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation or "deregulation": (1) the post-1996 unbundling regime designed to facilitate entry into local telecommunications markets; (2) the continuation and extension of the high-cost "universal service" program funded by the taxation of long-distance telephony; and (3) the FCC's attempt to regulate cable television rates.

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  • Crandall Robert W., 2008. "Letting Go? The Federal Communications Commission in the Era of Deregulation," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 7(4), pages 1-28, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:rneart:v:7:y:2008:i:4:n:3
    DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1159
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    1. Stenberg, Peter L. & Morehart, Mitchell J. & Vogel, Stephen J. & Cromartie, John & Breneman, Vincent E. & Brown, Dennis M., 2009. "Broadband Internet's Value for Rural America," Economic Research Report 55944, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Hoernig, Steffen, 2011. "Asymmetric Broadband Wholesale Regulation," CEPR Discussion Papers 8399, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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