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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has since 1991 used price caps to regulate jurisdictionally interstate rates of large, incumbent telephone local-exchange companies (ILECs). Since 1994, the amount of revenue subject to this price-cap regulation has fallen an estimated 19%. Reductions in per-minute rates associated with originating and terminating interstate traffic have decreased price-cap revenue.  … Continue reading economic outlines of FCC price-cap regulation

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has used price caps to regulate large U.S. local telephone companies’ rates for jurisdictionally interstate services.  Data filed publicly at the FCC provides yearly revenue totals for service categories defined under price caps.  Such data for the historic Bell Atlantic service area for filing years from 1990 to 2009 … Continue reading price-cap revenue for a U.S. local telephone company

On June 14, 2007, Verizon unveiled a National Discount Plan (NDP) for its DS1 and DS3 special access customers.  In a press release announcing the new offering, a Verizon Vice President declared: In addition to serving our wholesale customers over one of the most advanced, reliable networks in the country, we’re offering a new discount … Continue reading telecom service innovation

In 2008, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., customers were still purchasing a total of 28 telegraph lines at a monthly rate of about $32 per line. While these twenty-first-century connections to the nineteenth century don’t have any economic significance, other seemingly outdated services generate large amounts of revenue. Consider 56 kpbs service, … Continue reading revenue inertia in communications network services