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Negotiating for Improved Interconnection: The Incentives to Bargain
January 01 1982
Roy Morris and Robert Preece. OSP Working Paper 7 (Apr 1982) addresses the issue of determining the types and quality of interconnection between local telephone companies and other telecommunications firms. The authors argue that,...
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Deregulating Personal and Amateur Radio
August 01 1981
Alex Felker and James Brown. OSP Working Paper 6 (Aug 1981) calls for much greater flexibility in the regulation of personal radio. The authors argue that such flexibility can be an important contributor to the achievement of personal...
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Reforming Regulatory Policy for Private Line Telecommunications Services: Implications for Market Performance
December 01 1980
Jerry Duvall and Michael Pelcovits. OSP Working Paper 4 (Dec 1980) presents a regulatory proposal for transitional telecommunications markets with emphasis on AT&T's private line service (PLS) market. The authors assume the...
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Economics and Telecommunications Privacy: A Framework for Analysis
December 01 1980
James Brown and Kenneth Gordon. OSP Working Paper 5 (Dec 1980) gives an overview of privacy, particularly as related to telecommunications policy, from an economic perspective. The authors review the economic rationale for...
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Speech Bandwidth Reduction
November 01 1980
Philip Gieseler and John O'Neal. OSP Working Paper 3 (Nov 1980) reviews the technologies for speech bandwidth compression that were current and state of the art in 1980. The authors conclude that those techniques for significantly...
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Frequency Spectrum Deregulation Alternatives
October 01 1980
Douglas Webbink. OSP Working Paper 2 (Oct 1980) reviews those economic concepts known as “spectrum deregulation” or “spectrum economics.” These concepts have been contentious issues, Webbink observes, because many licensees are...
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Social Objectives and Competition in Common Carrier Communication: Incompatible or Inseparable?
April 01 1980
Nina Cornell, Daniel Kelley, and Peter Greenhalgh. OSP Working Paper 1 (Apr 1980) argues not only that increased competition in the common carrier communications industry is compatible with the achievement of social goals but, also, that...
