Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Crandall, Robert W.

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Brookings Institution.
• Waverman, Leonard.

Description

xiii, 199 p. : ill.; 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."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

When telephone subsidies become transparent

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

^^^99050588^

OCLC

42700082

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Harvard Library