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When in Doubt, Regulate…

In 1999, the FCC began to grant incumbent LECs pricing flexibility on special access services in some Metropolitan Statistical Areas (“MSAs”) when specific evidence of competitive alternatives were...

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Sending the Wrong Signals on Special Access Deregulation…

As both the courts and the Federal Communications Commission have consistently recognized, price regulation is “far from an exact science”.  For this reason, since the late 1980s, the FCC has slowly...

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Well, this is interesting…

Earlier this month, the trade press reported that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was circulating an order among his fellow Commissioners that not only would re-evaluate how the agency de-regulates...

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Some Thoughts on this Week’s FCC Oversight Hearing…

This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held an oversight hearing of the Federal Communications Commission.  As to be expected, the issues covered ranged far and wide, demonstrating once...

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The FCC’s Special Access Fiasco: No Data and Wrong Policy Question…

Late Wednesday night, the Federal Communications Commission released a Report and Order that would suspend, on an “interim” basis, its rules for automatic grants of pricing flexibility for special...

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2013 Year in Review…

In 2013, there was certainly no shortage of complex issues raised in the policy debate.  Some issues were relatively new (e.g., getting the IP Transition underway), some issues were those with which...

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Special Access and the FCC’s Regulatory Revival…

There is a Chinese proverb, though some call it a curse, which says “May you live in interesting times.” For those involved in telecommunications policy over the last few decades, I think it’s safe to...

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Some Preliminary Thoughts On Dr. Rysman’s Special Access Empirical Analysis…

As part of the Federal Communication Commission’s Tariff Investigation Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Special Access Services, the Agency included as Appendix B a commissioned...

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The FCC’s Intellectual and Empirical Vacuum Over Market Power for Special...

It’s been over eighty years since the Communications Act of 1934 created the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) for the purpose of overseeing the nation’s communications industries.  Still, as...

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Economics Makes a Welcome Return in the Forthcoming BDS Order…

As part of his efforts to increase transparency at the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Ajit Pai recently posted a draft order in advance of this week’s April Open Meeting which purports...

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