Cable TV: Regulation or Competition?

by Robert W. Crandall, Rebert W. Crandall, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, et al.

Book Overview

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In 1984, Congress simultaneously eliminated state-local regulation of cable television rates and banned telephone companies from offering cable service in their own franchise areas. Five years later, the General Accounting Office discovered that basic cable rates had risen more than four times as rapidly as the overall consumer price level since rate deregulation. As a result, Congress began to move to reimpose cable rate regulation once again,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815716095
• ISBN13: 9780815716099
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"