Author: Government Printing Office
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ISBN: 9780160454257
Category : Reference
Languages : en
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Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Robert W. Crandall
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815719701
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition. At the same time, these new technologies are providing the telephone companies with a wide array of new market opportunities. Unfortunately, their status as regulated carriers makes it difficult to exploit these new opportunities and to fend off competitive assaults on their traditional telephone business. As long as they are regulated, they can be accused of using their monopoly services to cross-subsidize new competitive ventures. But partial deregulation and open entry would be a catastrophe for them unless they were allowed to revise their rate structure. There is a widespread misconception that the U.S. telecommunications industry has been "deregulated" and that Canadian authorities are following the U.S. lead. In fact, most services remain regulated, even though some markets, such as long-distance services, equipment sales and rentals, and local services, have been opened up. This book reviews the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyze the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets with particular emphasis on the impacts of regulatory reforms and competition on long-distance rates. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly on the road to the information superhighway. The authors contend that for decades misguided regulation of the telephone sector in both Canada and the U.S. denied consumers the benefits of competition, distorted local and long-distance telephone rates, and blocked en

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 944

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Category : Industrial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Presents industry reviews including a section of "trends and forecasts," complete with tables and graphs for industry analysis.

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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788104329
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Highlights U.S. industrial activities and features: economic assumptions; recent financial performance of U.S. manufacturing corporations; the U.S. export boom and economic growth; highlights of the 1993 U.S. outlook; the top 50 trade events in 1993; Dept. of Commerce competitive assessments; industry reviews; trade finance; educational training; and forecasts. Also lists industry analysts by name with a phone number.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1632

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Author: Hoover's Incorporated
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ISBN: 9780160427787
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1034

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119th edition. Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.