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Competition in Telecommunications

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Competition in Telecommunications

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Theoretical models based on the assumption that telecommunications is a natural monopoly no longer reflect reality. As a result, policymakers often lack the guidance of economic theorists. "Competition in Telecommunications" is written in a style accessible to managers, consultants, government officials, and others. Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political economy and the economics of incentives. The book opens with background information for the reader who is unfamiliar with current issues in the telecommunications industry. The following sections focus on four central aspects of the recent deregulatory movement: the introduction of incentive regulation; one-way access (access given by a local network to the providers of complementary services); the special nature of competition in an industry requiring two-way access (whereby competing networks depend on the mutual termination of calls); and universal service, in particular the two leading contenders for the competitively neutral provision of universal service: the use of engineering models to compute subsidies and the design of universal service auctions. The book concludes with a discussion of the Internet and regulatory institutions.

Author Biography

Jean-Jacques Laffont is Professor of Economics at the Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse and the Institut Universitaire de France and Director of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Jean Tirole is Scientific Director at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Researcher at CERAS (of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees), and Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Release date NZ
January 26th, 2001
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
20 illus.; 20 Illustrations, unspecified
Imprint
MIT Press
Pages
336
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Dimensions
152x229x23
ISBN-13
9780262621502
Product ID
2039170

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