书目名称 | The New Investment Theory of Real Options and its Implication for Telecommunications Economics | 编辑 | James Alleman,Eli Noam | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Randall B, Lowe Piper & Marbury, L.L.R The issue of costing and pricing in the telecommunications industry has been hotly debated for the last twenty years. Indeed, we are still wrestling today over the cost of the local exchange for access by interexchange and competitive local ex change carriers, as well as for universal service funding. The U.S. telecommunications world was a simple one before the emergence of competition, comprising only AT&T and independent local exchange carriers. Costs were allocated between intrastate and interstate jurisdictions and then again, between intrastate local and toll. The Bell System then divided those costs among itself (using a process referred to as the division of revenues) and independents (using a process called settlements). Tolls subsidized local calls to keep the politi cians happy, and the firm, as a whole, covered its costs and made a fair return. State regulators, however, lacked the wherewithal to audit this process. Their con cerns centered generally on whether local rates, irrespective of costs, were at a po litically acceptable level. Although federal regulators were better able to determine the reasonableness of the process | 出版日期 | Book 1999 | 关键词 | Deregulation; Investment; Monopol; competition; economics; evaluation; management; networks; pricing; regulat | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/b102437 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4757-7184-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-585-33314-4Series ISSN 2730-7468 Series E-ISSN 2730-7476 | issn_series | 2730-7468 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999 |
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