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The mixed blessing of a deregulatory endpoint for the public switched telephone network

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Receiving authority to dismantle the wireline public switched telephone network (PSTN) will deliver a mixture of financial benefits and costs to incumbent carriers and also jeopardize longstanding legislative and regulatory goals seeking ubiquitous, affordable and fully interconnected networks. Even if incumbent carriers continue to provide basic telephone services via wireless facilities, they will benefit from substantial relaxation of common carriage duties, no longer having to serve as the carrier of last resort and having the opportunity to decide whether and where to provide service. On the other hand, incumbent carriers may have underestimated the substantial financial and marketplace advantages they also will likely lose in the deregulatory process. Legislators and policy makers also may have underestimated the impact of no longer having the ability to impose common carrier mandates that require carriers to interconnect so that end users have complete access to network services regardless of location.

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  • Frieden, Rob, 2013. "The mixed blessing of a deregulatory endpoint for the public switched telephone network," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(4), pages 400-412.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:37:y:2013:i:4:p:400-412
    DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2012.05.003
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