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

by Robert W. Crandall and Leonard Waverman

Book Overview

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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"