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What It Was Like, What Happened, and What It's Like Now: Developments in Telecommunications over Recent Decades

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A survey of telecommunications over past decades. Overall prices of services have declined less rapidly since deregulation, with local rates rising, long-distance rates falling. Productivity increased strongly during period of Bell System regulated monopoly. Service quality of traditional telephone services has fallen, but many new services have been added. Innovations in customer premise equipment since deregulation far exceed those in prior years. Many major network innovations occurred during years of Bell System monopoly and network innovations have continued since. Actions by the Federal Communications Commission actions anteceded government antitrust case and are responsible for most of the changes since 1978. Most of the beneficial changes have little, if anything, to do with antitrust case and divestiture. Copyright 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Phillips, Almarin, 2002. "What It Was Like, What Happened, and What It's Like Now: Developments in Telecommunications over Recent Decades," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 57-78, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:regeco:v:21:y:2002:i:1:p:57-78
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    1. Eva Jansson, 0. "Deregulation, property rights, and legal system," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-25.

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