Product Description: In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote "universal service," but Crandall and Waverman show that it has little effect on telephone subscriptions while it has major harmful effects on the value of all telephone service...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote "universal service," but Crandall and Waverman show that it has little effect on telephone subscriptions while it has major harmful effects on the value of all telephone service...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International agreements on competition law and policy are notoriously difficult to implement. This collection of essays examines the complexities involved when the issues of international co-ordination and harmonization of competition law and policy are considered.

Product Description: The rapid pace of technological change is placing the world's telephone companies in a very difficult position. Fiber optics cables, wireless telephones, digital signal compression, and sophisticated new switching equipment are lowering the cost of providing service and opening the gates to new competition...read more

Product Description: The pricing structure for the provision of international telecommunication services has become a key issue for policy makers in recent years. This report examines the present system of charging practices and concludes that it is inefficient, discriminatory, and results in economic distortions...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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