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Acknowledgments | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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The Big Picture | |
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Economic Principles | |
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Network effects and interconnection | |
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Economies of scale and density | |
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Information platforms, monopoly leveraging, and net neutrality | |
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Technological Convergence and Statutory Obsolescence | |
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Competition Policy in Wireline Telecommunications | |
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A Primer on Wireline Technology | |
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Transmission pipes: loops and transport | |
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Switches | |
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Circuit switching | |
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Packet switching | |
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Traditional Telephone Rate Regulation | |
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The basics of price regulation | |
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The regulatory compact, rate-of-return regulation, and price caps | |
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Dual jurisdiction and access charges | |
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Tariffs | |
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Introduction to universal service policies | |
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Wireline Competition Policy Before 1996 | |
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Telecommunications equipment manufacturing | |
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Long-distance competition and the AT&T consent decree | |
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The rise of competitive access providers | |
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The first steps toward local exchange competition | |
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Wireline Competition Under the 1996 Act | |
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The 1996 Act's main objectives | |
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The nuts and bolts of the 1996 Act | |
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A taxonomy of carriers and services | |
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Interconnection and collocation rights | |
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Network elements and leasing rights | |
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Procedures for implementing the local competition provisions | |
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The rise and fall of UNE-P | |
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The stakes of UNE-P | |
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The FCC, the "impairment" standard, and the courts | |
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The collapse of the consumer long-distance carriers | |
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Wireline broadband facilities and the 1996 Act | |
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Line sharing | |
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Next generation networks | |
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The Twilight of Monopoly-Era Regulation | |
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Forbearance from monopoly-era regulation in the mass market | |
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The partial deregulation of special-access services | |
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The Spectrum | |
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Overview | |
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The Nuts and Bolts of Spectrum Allocation and Assignment | |
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Allocation | |
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Assignment: from comparative hearings to auctions | |
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Liberating the Airwaves | |
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Beyond command and control | |
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Reclaiming spectrum for mobile broadband | |
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Reclaiming government-held spectrum and options for spectrum sharing | |
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Reclaiming spectrum from broadcasters | |
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Controversy in the transition | |
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The 2004 Nextel spectrum-relocation controversy | |
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Mobile satellite service controversies: Light Squared and DISH | |
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Avoiding the sunk cost fallacy in the assignment of spectrum rights | |
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Commons: Einstein's cat in the age of the mouse | |
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The Future of Interference Policy | |
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Mobile Wireless Services | |
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The Basics of Cellular Technology | |
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The Regulatory Landscape | |
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A brief history of mobile wireless regulation | |
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The general deregulation of wireless telephony | |
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Competition Policy for the Wireless Broadband Ecosystem | |
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Roaming | |
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Interoperability | |
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Number portability | |
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Market concentration and the AT&T/T-Mobile merger controversy | |
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A Primer on Internet Technology | |
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The Basics | |
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From analog to digital | |
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Modularity and layering | |
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The logic of the Internet | |
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Killer apps: email and the Web | |
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VoIP | |
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The Internet's Physical Infrastructure | |
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Beginnings | |
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The Internet's Constituent IP Networks | |
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Access networks/ISPs | |
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Backbone networks and the basics of peering and transit | |
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CDNs and the disintermediation of Internet backbone networks | |
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Net Neutrality and the Regulation of Broadband Internet Access | |
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The Historical Origins of the Net Neutrality Movement | |
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The Computer Inquiries | |
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The "open-access" debate | |
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The Net Neutrality Debate | |
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The anti-blocking rule and "reasonable network management" | |
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The Madison River and Comcast-BitTorrent controversies | |
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The Open Internet Order and the differential treatment of fixed and mobile broadband platforms | |
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The concept of "reasonable network management" | |
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"Application agnosticism" and usage-sensitive pricing | |
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Restrictions on favored treatment of particular content | |
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Background | |
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The FCC's "nondiscrimination" rule | |
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The "specialized services" exception, IP video, and data tiers | |
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Nondiscrimination and paid peering | |
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The economic elements of the net neutrality debate | |
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Framing the debate | |
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Market power and residential broadband competition | |
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Vertical integration and the ICE principle | |
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Concerns about "manufactured scarcity" | |
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Weighing the costs and benefits of intervention | |
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Title I, Title II, and the Limits of FCC Power | |
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Overview of Title I and the FCC's "ancillary authority" | |
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The Comcast decision and the "third way" proposal | |
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Denouement and litigation | |
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Interconnection and Intercarrier Compensation | |
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The Historical Crazy Quilt of Intercarrier Compensation Schemes | |
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Introduction to PSTN interconnection rules and intercarrier compensation | |
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Access charge arbitrage scandals-and their origin in regulatory artificiality | |
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The ISP reciprocal compensation controversy | |
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Intercarrier compensation and VoIP | |
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Tariffs, CLEC access charges, and "traffic pumping" | |
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Intercarrier compensation for mobile and tandem transit providers | |
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The Rise of Bill-and-Keep as the Cornerstone of Intercarrier Compensation Reform | |
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The economic challenges of a calling-network-pays regime | |
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The bill-and-keep alternative | |
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The USF-ICC Reform Order and the 1996 Act | |
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Overview of the Order | |
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Legal rationales and litigation | |
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The FCC's disputed jurisdiction | |
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The disputed legal basis for bill-and-keep | |
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After the PSTN Sunset: Interconnection Policy in an All-IP World | |
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VoIP-to-VoIP interconnection | |
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Telephone numbers in an all-IP world | |
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Indirect interconnection and QoS | |
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Paid-peering disputes involving "eyeball" ISPs and CDNs | |
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Concerns about Internet fragmentation | |
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Universal Service in the Age of Broadband | |
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Introduction to the Political Dynamics of Universal Service | |
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Federal USF Disbursement Mechanisms | |
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The nuts and bolts of the High Cost Fund (circa 2011) | |
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Wireless ETCs and the rise and fall of the identical-support rule | |
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The Connect America Fund | |
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Federal USF Contribution Mechanisms | |
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The traditional revenue-based assessment regime | |
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Prospects for contribution reform | |
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Competition in the Delivery of Video Programming | |
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The Basics of the Video-Distribution Marketplace | |
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Introduction to video programmers and distributors | |
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Cable rate deregulation and the "a la carte" debate | |
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Regulation of Relationships among Video-Distribution Platforms | |
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Compulsory copyright licenses and retransmission consent | |
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Must carry | |
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Satellite retransmission of broadcast signals | |
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The program-access rules | |
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Online video distributors | |
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OVDs, copyright, and the definition of "MVPDs" | |
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OVDs and the Comcast-NBC "Universal merger conditions | |
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Efforts to Protect Programming Competition and Diversity through Vertical Regulation of Broadcast Networks and MVPDs | |
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Vertical integration concerns and-the finsyn case study | |
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Cable operators, horizontal ownership restrictions, and the program-carriage rules | |
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Cable ownership restrictions | |
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The program-carriage rules | |
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Restrictions on Ownership of Television Broadcast Stations | |
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The Future of Telecommunications Competition Policy | |
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First Principles of Institutional Reform | |
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Judging Congress | |
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The Antitrust Alternative | |
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The FCC in Transition | |
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Expertise | |
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Determinacy | |
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Relations with reviewing courts | |
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Relations with the states | |
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Relations with coordinate merger-review authorities | |
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Transparency | |
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Neutrality | |
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Humility | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |