Who Pays for Universal Service? : When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent.

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In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote ""universal service, &qu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Crandall, Robert W.
Autres auteurs: Waverman, Leonard
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
Sujets:
Telecommunication policy > United States.
Telecommunication > Taxation > United States.
Telephone > United States.
Télécommunications > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Téléphone > États-Unis.
Telecommunication policy
Telecommunication > Taxation
Telephone
United States
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Table des matières:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Foreword; Table of Contents; Universal Service and Telecommunications Policy; Telephone Service versus Other Household Services; Who Pays for Telephone Service?; Universal"" Service in Other Regulated Sectors in the United States; Household Demand: Monthly Rates and ""Universal Service; Costs and Benefits of Traditional Universal Service Policies; The 1996 U.S. Telecommunication Act and Traditional Universal Service; The New (New) Universal Service; The Need for a More Focused Policy; Notes; Index; Back Cover

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