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Title: Pulling the [open quotes]reverse trigger[close quotes]: A way to define local competition. [Competition among Public Utilities]

Abstract

The communications convergence, brought about largely by the digitalization revolution, is now moving in a double helix through the horizontal telecommunications hierarchy. Competition for customer premises is aspiring upward toward the competition that is spiraling downward from the long-distance market. The competitive-access market is growing rapidly. MCI Metro, MCI/Nextel, and AT T/McCaw are poised to reach down into the traditionally [open quotes]local[close quotes] markets through wires and airwaves alike. Even the electric utilities are building persuasive business cases and regulatory arguments to transform their erstwhile internal communications systems, conduits, and rights-of-way into commercial networks offering cable TV, multimedia, Personal Communications Service (PCS), and alternative telephony services. The four principles in developing a regulatory standard should be: create standards that ease regulatory babysitting, recognize the relationship between the costs of regulatory compliance and building the networks, minimize transaction costs, and let the networks begin to grow now, without time and energy being spent on gaming the regulatory system.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6745979
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Fortnightly; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 132:12
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; JOINT VENTURES; LEGISLATION; PUBLIC UTILITIES; COMPETITION; LICENSING REGULATIONS; COMMUNICATIONS; COOPERATION; REGULATIONS; 293000* - Energy Planning & Policy- Policy, Legislation, & Regulation

Citation Formats

Barnich, T L, and Clausen, C L. Pulling the [open quotes]reverse trigger[close quotes]: A way to define local competition. [Competition among Public Utilities]. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Barnich, T L, & Clausen, C L. Pulling the [open quotes]reverse trigger[close quotes]: A way to define local competition. [Competition among Public Utilities]. United States.
Barnich, T L, and Clausen, C L. 1994. "Pulling the [open quotes]reverse trigger[close quotes]: A way to define local competition. [Competition among Public Utilities]". United States.
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author = {Barnich, T L and Clausen, C L},
abstractNote = {The communications convergence, brought about largely by the digitalization revolution, is now moving in a double helix through the horizontal telecommunications hierarchy. Competition for customer premises is aspiring upward toward the competition that is spiraling downward from the long-distance market. The competitive-access market is growing rapidly. MCI Metro, MCI/Nextel, and AT T/McCaw are poised to reach down into the traditionally [open quotes]local[close quotes] markets through wires and airwaves alike. Even the electric utilities are building persuasive business cases and regulatory arguments to transform their erstwhile internal communications systems, conduits, and rights-of-way into commercial networks offering cable TV, multimedia, Personal Communications Service (PCS), and alternative telephony services. The four principles in developing a regulatory standard should be: create standards that ease regulatory babysitting, recognize the relationship between the costs of regulatory compliance and building the networks, minimize transaction costs, and let the networks begin to grow now, without time and energy being spent on gaming the regulatory system.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6745979}, journal = {Fortnightly; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 132:12,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 1994},
month = {Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 1994}
}