[IP] Article on Inconsistent Regulatory Treatment of Similar Services
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From: Rob Frieden <rmf5@xxxxxxx>
Date: June 14, 2005 3:15:53 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, Ip ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Article on Inconsistent Regulatory Treatment of Similar
Services
Hello All:
FYI:
The FCC's Name Game: How Shifting Regulatory
Classifications Affect Competition
Abstract:
This article examines the consequences in using service definitions
as the basis for a vertically driven regulatory regime in
telecommunications despite converging markets and technologies. The
article examines Internet-mediated telephone service as a case study
for showing problems resulting from the Federal Communications
Commission's use of vertical regulatory silos that develop a single
regulatory status regardless of whether changed circumstances favor a
change in regulation.
Vertical regulation makes it difficult for incumbent stakeholders to
change their regulatory classification. Incumbent telephone service
providers continue to fit within the basic telecommunications
services, common carrier regulatory model even as newcomers manage to
provide a competitive alternative that qualifies for little
regulation based on the information services classification.
The article proposes the use of a horizontal, layered approach to
regulation consistent with what the European Union has endorsed.
Adding to what others have written about a layered approach to
telecommunications regulation, the article identifies likely
difficulties in the implementation of a horizontal regulatory model,
and also suggests remedies.
Keywords: Telecommunications, internet, regulation, regulatory asymmetry
Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?
abstract_id=555243#PaperDownload or http://www.personal.psu.edu/
faculty/r/m/rmf5/The%20FCC's%20Name%20Game-Draft.pdf
Regards, Rob Frieden
Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications
Penn State University
102 Carnegie Building, University Park, PA 16802
office: (814) 863-7996; fax (814) 863-8161
home: (814) 867-2545
Web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/m/rmf5/
Faculty profile: http://www.psu.edu/dept/comm/faculty/frieden.html
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