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  • the empirical case against asymmetric regulation of broadband internet access
    2003
    Co-Authors: Gregory J Sidak, Robert W Crandall, Hal J. Singer
    Abstract:

    The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A Cable Television System operator is not regulated in its sale of Cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the use of its broadband network on a wholesale (or, unbundled) basis so that they may offer, in the retail market, DSL services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now familiar. Such regulation leads not to deregulation, but to an enduring managed competition far more complex to administer than traditional regulation of a monopoly service provider ever was. The alternative to asymmetric regulation is either symmetric regulation or symmetric freedom from regulation. Assuming that the latter alternative is preferred, what actual steps would be taken to abolish asymmetric regulation of ILEC provision of broadband Internet access? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could remove asymmetric regulation that the agency itself previously imposed. The FCC could declare that broadband Internet access service is not a telecommunications service, subject to numerous regulations appliCable to ILECs, but rather an information service, which is free of such regulations. Amid considerable controversy, the FCC invited public comment on such a reclassification in February 2002. Or the FCC could use its power under section 10 of the Communications Act to forbear from regulating ILEC provision of broadband Internet access. A third, and more incremental, approach would be for the FCC to declare ILECs nondominant in the provision of advanced services, such as broadband Internet access. Non-dominant carriers are exempt from price-cap or rate-of-return regulation, as well as the obligation to file tariffs and to establish the reasonableness of those tariffs through the submission of cost data. Much, if not all, of the economic analysis required to determine whether a carrier is nondominant also would be relevant to the FCC's decision whether to forbear from regulating a particular service or whether to reclassify the service in question as unregulated. Although the FCC did not receive its authority under section 10 to forbear from regulation until 1996, the agency has evaluated petitions for nondominance for a longer time and consequently has distilled a body of law on the subject. In this Article, we evaluate the case against asymmetric regulation of broadband Internet access through the lens of the FCC's approach to deciding petitions for non-dominance. We examine the economic evidence relevant to whether ILECs are non-dominant in the provision of mass-market broadband services, the most familiar of which is DSL service. We use a nested-logit discrete-choice model to produce econometric estimates of the own-price elasticity of demand for DSL service and the cross-price elasticity of demand for Cable modem service with respect to DSL service. Our findings suggest that demand for DSL service is price-elastic, that DSL and Cable modems are in the same product market, and that DSL providers lack market power. The FCC would advance the public interest by ruling that the ILECs are non-dominant in the mass-market broadband services market.

  • the empirical case against asymmetrical regulation of broadband internet access
    Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2002
    Co-Authors: Robert W Crandall, Gregory J Sidak, Hal J. Singer
    Abstract:

    The United States regulates the provision of broadband Internet access service asymmetrically. A Cable Television System operator is not regulated in its sale of Cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier ("ILEC") that offers digital subscriber line ("DSL") service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the use of its broadband network on a wholesale (or, "unbundled") basis. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now familiar. The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") could remove its own asymmetric regulation. It could reclassify broadband Internet access as an "information service," which is largely unregulated. Or, it could forbear from regulating ILEC provision of broadband Internet access. A third, and more incremental, approach would be for the FCC to declare ILECs "nondominant" in the provision of advanced services, including broadband Internet access. In this Article, we evaluate the empirical case against asymmetric regulation of broadband Internet access through the lens of the FCC's approach to deciding petitions for nondominance. We use a nested-logit discrete-choice model to produce econometric estimates of the own-price elasticity of demand for DSL service and the cross-price elasticity of demand for Cable modem service with respect to DSL service. Our findings suggest that demand for DSL service is price-elastic, that DSL and Cable modems are in the same product market, and that DSL providers lack market power. The FCC © 2002 Robert W. Crandall, Hal J. Singer, and J. Gregory Sidak t This Article is an outgrowth of a declaration that we submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of SBC Communications' petition to be deemed nondominant in the provision of advanced services. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and not those of the Brookings Institution or the American Enterprise Institute, neither of which takes institutional positions on specific legislative, regulatory, adjudicatory, or executive matters. tt Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution. ttt F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. tttt Senior Vice President, Criterion Economics, L.L.C., Washington, D.C. BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL would advance the public interest by ruling that the ILECs are nondominant in the mass-market broadband services market.

Gregory J Sidak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the empirical case against asymmetric regulation of broadband internet access
    2003
    Co-Authors: Gregory J Sidak, Robert W Crandall, Hal J. Singer
    Abstract:

    The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A Cable Television System operator is not regulated in its sale of Cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the use of its broadband network on a wholesale (or, unbundled) basis so that they may offer, in the retail market, DSL services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now familiar. Such regulation leads not to deregulation, but to an enduring managed competition far more complex to administer than traditional regulation of a monopoly service provider ever was. The alternative to asymmetric regulation is either symmetric regulation or symmetric freedom from regulation. Assuming that the latter alternative is preferred, what actual steps would be taken to abolish asymmetric regulation of ILEC provision of broadband Internet access? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could remove asymmetric regulation that the agency itself previously imposed. The FCC could declare that broadband Internet access service is not a telecommunications service, subject to numerous regulations appliCable to ILECs, but rather an information service, which is free of such regulations. Amid considerable controversy, the FCC invited public comment on such a reclassification in February 2002. Or the FCC could use its power under section 10 of the Communications Act to forbear from regulating ILEC provision of broadband Internet access. A third, and more incremental, approach would be for the FCC to declare ILECs nondominant in the provision of advanced services, such as broadband Internet access. Non-dominant carriers are exempt from price-cap or rate-of-return regulation, as well as the obligation to file tariffs and to establish the reasonableness of those tariffs through the submission of cost data. Much, if not all, of the economic analysis required to determine whether a carrier is nondominant also would be relevant to the FCC's decision whether to forbear from regulating a particular service or whether to reclassify the service in question as unregulated. Although the FCC did not receive its authority under section 10 to forbear from regulation until 1996, the agency has evaluated petitions for nondominance for a longer time and consequently has distilled a body of law on the subject. In this Article, we evaluate the case against asymmetric regulation of broadband Internet access through the lens of the FCC's approach to deciding petitions for non-dominance. We examine the economic evidence relevant to whether ILECs are non-dominant in the provision of mass-market broadband services, the most familiar of which is DSL service. We use a nested-logit discrete-choice model to produce econometric estimates of the own-price elasticity of demand for DSL service and the cross-price elasticity of demand for Cable modem service with respect to DSL service. Our findings suggest that demand for DSL service is price-elastic, that DSL and Cable modems are in the same product market, and that DSL providers lack market power. The FCC would advance the public interest by ruling that the ILECs are non-dominant in the mass-market broadband services market.

  • the empirical case against asymmetrical regulation of broadband internet access
    Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2002
    Co-Authors: Robert W Crandall, Gregory J Sidak, Hal J. Singer
    Abstract:

    The United States regulates the provision of broadband Internet access service asymmetrically. A Cable Television System operator is not regulated in its sale of Cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier ("ILEC") that offers digital subscriber line ("DSL") service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the use of its broadband network on a wholesale (or, "unbundled") basis. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now familiar. The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") could remove its own asymmetric regulation. It could reclassify broadband Internet access as an "information service," which is largely unregulated. Or, it could forbear from regulating ILEC provision of broadband Internet access. A third, and more incremental, approach would be for the FCC to declare ILECs "nondominant" in the provision of advanced services, including broadband Internet access. In this Article, we evaluate the empirical case against asymmetric regulation of broadband Internet access through the lens of the FCC's approach to deciding petitions for nondominance. We use a nested-logit discrete-choice model to produce econometric estimates of the own-price elasticity of demand for DSL service and the cross-price elasticity of demand for Cable modem service with respect to DSL service. Our findings suggest that demand for DSL service is price-elastic, that DSL and Cable modems are in the same product market, and that DSL providers lack market power. The FCC © 2002 Robert W. Crandall, Hal J. Singer, and J. Gregory Sidak t This Article is an outgrowth of a declaration that we submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of SBC Communications' petition to be deemed nondominant in the provision of advanced services. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and not those of the Brookings Institution or the American Enterprise Institute, neither of which takes institutional positions on specific legislative, regulatory, adjudicatory, or executive matters. tt Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution. ttt F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. tttt Senior Vice President, Criterion Economics, L.L.C., Washington, D.C. BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL would advance the public interest by ruling that the ILECs are nondominant in the mass-market broadband services market.

Robert W Crandall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the empirical case against asymmetric regulation of broadband internet access
    2003
    Co-Authors: Gregory J Sidak, Robert W Crandall, Hal J. Singer
    Abstract:

    The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A Cable Television System operator is not regulated in its sale of Cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the use of its broadband network on a wholesale (or, unbundled) basis so that they may offer, in the retail market, DSL services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now familiar. Such regulation leads not to deregulation, but to an enduring managed competition far more complex to administer than traditional regulation of a monopoly service provider ever was. The alternative to asymmetric regulation is either symmetric regulation or symmetric freedom from regulation. Assuming that the latter alternative is preferred, what actual steps would be taken to abolish asymmetric regulation of ILEC provision of broadband Internet access? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could remove asymmetric regulation that the agency itself previously imposed. The FCC could declare that broadband Internet access service is not a telecommunications service, subject to numerous regulations appliCable to ILECs, but rather an information service, which is free of such regulations. Amid considerable controversy, the FCC invited public comment on such a reclassification in February 2002. Or the FCC could use its power under section 10 of the Communications Act to forbear from regulating ILEC provision of broadband Internet access. A third, and more incremental, approach would be for the FCC to declare ILECs nondominant in the provision of advanced services, such as broadband Internet access. Non-dominant carriers are exempt from price-cap or rate-of-return regulation, as well as the obligation to file tariffs and to establish the reasonableness of those tariffs through the submission of cost data. Much, if not all, of the economic analysis required to determine whether a carrier is nondominant also would be relevant to the FCC's decision whether to forbear from regulating a particular service or whether to reclassify the service in question as unregulated. Although the FCC did not receive its authority under section 10 to forbear from regulation until 1996, the agency has evaluated petitions for nondominance for a longer time and consequently has distilled a body of law on the subject. In this Article, we evaluate the case against asymmetric regulation of broadband Internet access through the lens of the FCC's approach to deciding petitions for non-dominance. We examine the economic evidence relevant to whether ILECs are non-dominant in the provision of mass-market broadband services, the most familiar of which is DSL service. We use a nested-logit discrete-choice model to produce econometric estimates of the own-price elasticity of demand for DSL service and the cross-price elasticity of demand for Cable modem service with respect to DSL service. Our findings suggest that demand for DSL service is price-elastic, that DSL and Cable modems are in the same product market, and that DSL providers lack market power. The FCC would advance the public interest by ruling that the ILECs are non-dominant in the mass-market broadband services market.

  • the empirical case against asymmetrical regulation of broadband internet access
    Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2002
    Co-Authors: Robert W Crandall, Gregory J Sidak, Hal J. Singer
    Abstract:

    The United States regulates the provision of broadband Internet access service asymmetrically. A Cable Television System operator is not regulated in its sale of Cable modem service. In contrast, an incumbent local exchange carrier ("ILEC") that offers digital subscriber line ("DSL") service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the use of its broadband network on a wholesale (or, "unbundled") basis. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now familiar. The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") could remove its own asymmetric regulation. It could reclassify broadband Internet access as an "information service," which is largely unregulated. Or, it could forbear from regulating ILEC provision of broadband Internet access. A third, and more incremental, approach would be for the FCC to declare ILECs "nondominant" in the provision of advanced services, including broadband Internet access. In this Article, we evaluate the empirical case against asymmetric regulation of broadband Internet access through the lens of the FCC's approach to deciding petitions for nondominance. We use a nested-logit discrete-choice model to produce econometric estimates of the own-price elasticity of demand for DSL service and the cross-price elasticity of demand for Cable modem service with respect to DSL service. Our findings suggest that demand for DSL service is price-elastic, that DSL and Cable modems are in the same product market, and that DSL providers lack market power. The FCC © 2002 Robert W. Crandall, Hal J. Singer, and J. Gregory Sidak t This Article is an outgrowth of a declaration that we submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of SBC Communications' petition to be deemed nondominant in the provision of advanced services. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and not those of the Brookings Institution or the American Enterprise Institute, neither of which takes institutional positions on specific legislative, regulatory, adjudicatory, or executive matters. tt Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution. ttt F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. tttt Senior Vice President, Criterion Economics, L.L.C., Washington, D.C. BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL would advance the public interest by ruling that the ILECs are nondominant in the mass-market broadband services market.

W Y Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • dsbcs modulation scheme for hybrid wireless and Cable Television System
    Optics Express, 2014
    Co-Authors: Pengchun Peng, H Y Wang, C H Chang, W Y Yang
    Abstract:

    This work develops and demonstrates a double sideband with optical carrier suppression (DSBCS) modulation scheme for a hybrid wireless and Cable Television System based on a phase modulator (PM) and a polarization beam splitter (PBS). A carrier suppression ratio greater than 20 dB is achieved between two sidebands. In addition, the values of carrier-to-noise ratio, composite second-order and composite triple beat in various channels after 25 km of transmission are higher than the threshold value, and the power penalty of microwave signal in back-to-back and 25 km transmission perform well. Additionally, the constellation diagram of upstream signal is successfully recovered. Above results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is highly promising for practical applications.

Yuchieh Chi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.