Who Pays for Universal Service?: When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent

by Robert W. Crandall and Leonard Waverman

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0815716117

ISBN13:9780815716112

Release Date:June 2000

Publisher:Brookings Institution Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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