Research Catalog

Title

Who pays for universal service? : when telephone subsidies become transparent / Robert W. Crandall, Leonard Waverman.

Author

Crandall, Robert W.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Waverman, Leonard.

Description

xiii, 199 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In Who Pays for Universal Service? Robert W. Crandall and Leonard Waverman analyze the demand for residential telephone service, calling patterns, and telephone expenditures across a variety of developed countries, with detailed data for the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Using these data, they have developed an estimate of the social cost of universal service policies for the United States, while considering this country's requirements in an international perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

When telephone subsidies become transparent

Subject

• Telecommunication policy > United States
• Telecommunication > Taxation > United States
• Telephone > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Universal Service and Telecommunications Policy -- 2. Telephone Service versus Other Household Services -- 3. Who Pays for Telephone Service? -- 4. "Universal" Service in Other Regulated Sectors in the United States -- 5. Household Demand: Monthly Rates and "Universal Service" -- 6. Costs and Benefits of Traditional Universal Service Policies -- 7. The 1996 U.S. Telecommunication Act and Traditional Universal Service -- 8. The New (New) Universal Service -- 9. The Need for a More Focused Policy.

ISBN

• 0815716125 (alk. paper)
• 0815716117 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 99050588
• R2-190198

OCLC

• 42700082
• ocm42700082
• SCSB-8990398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries