Add to ORKGSomething suspiciously resembling a double standard exists in US regulation of broadband access carriers. Incumbent local exchange carriers?ILECs?are required to open their networks to competing service providers, while cable television companies are not. Where did Congress and the FCC get it right? In the telco case, where open access is required, and there is a nascent competitive market for telephony and DSL services, or in the case of cable data networks, where consumers usually have no choice but to buy their service from the cable company's affiliated ISP? Or is disparity the best policy
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Cable television and traditional telephone companies are increasingly offering the same set of servi...
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The goal of telecommunications policy has shifted from the control of natural monopoly to the promot...
From a public policy perspective, the goals are to ensure that broadband deployment is timely, that ...
The FCC has issued a new set of Internet access regulations and policies (namely Preserving the Open...
The networks that are generically referred to as ?cable? today began their lives with a particular ...
Communications regulators over the next decade will spend increasing time on conflicts between the p...
This iBrief discusses a recent Court of Appeals decision remanding FCC rules on the unbundling of ...
This paper responds to arguments made in filings in the FCC’s broadband openness proceeding (GN Dkt....
Wireline telecommunications infrastructure in the customer access network or CAN is undergoing a ver...
In this article, we examine the open access debate in the context of cable services and broadband In...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, “Preserving the Open Internet...
A decade of broadband access deregulation has landed the FCC at a legal deadend. After the D.C. Circ...
In 2003, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will decide in multiple contexts the exten...
The common idea of open access policy is that it refers to the sharing of particular elements, such ...
Cable television and traditional telephone companies are increasingly offering the same set of servi...
The technology to supply almost limitless bandwidth is now at hand. Broadband networks already occup...
The goal of telecommunications policy has shifted from the control of natural monopoly to the promot...
From a public policy perspective, the goals are to ensure that broadband deployment is timely, that ...
The FCC has issued a new set of Internet access regulations and policies (namely Preserving the Open...