Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access?
Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access?
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宽带：我们应该监管高速互联网接入吗？
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2002
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通讯作者：
James Alleman
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作者：
R. Crandall;James Alleman
电信行业普遍担心，公共政策可能会阻碍互联网继续发展成为高速通信网络。在没有无处不在的高速宽带的情况下。住宅和小型企业用户的互联网连接、对IT设备和新的互联网服务应用的需求可能会停滞不前。宽带政策在很大程度上是有争议的，因为不同类型的运营商面临着不同的监管制度。有线电视公司既不面临有线调制解调器服务的零售价格管制，也不面临向竞争对手提供其设备的任何要求。另一方面，本地电话公司既要面对DSL服务的零售价格管制，也要面对1996年《电信法》（Telecommunications Act）规定的要求，即它们必须“为用户付费”。他们的网络设施，并将其租给竞争对手。最后，新进入者在很大程度上是不受监管的，但许多人依靠以规定费率从现有电话公司租用的设施来连接他们的客户。这种不对称的监管是本卷的重点，其中电信学者解决了在部署新的高速电信服务时出现的公共政策问题。
There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed i??degreebroadbandi??i?? Internet connections for residential and small-business customers, the demand for IT equipment and new Internet service applications may stagnate. Broadband policy is controversial in large part because of the differences in the regulatory regimes faced by different types of carriers. Cable television companies face neither retail price regulation of their cable modem services nor any requirements to make their facilities available to competitors. Local telephone companies, on the other hand, face both retail price regulation for their DSL service and a requirement imposed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act that they i??degreeunbundlei??i?? their network facilities and lease them to rivals. Finally, new entrants are largely unregulated, but many rely on facilities leased from the incumbent telephone companies at regulated rates to connect to their customers. This asymmetric regulation is the focus of this volume, in which telecommunications scholars address the public policy issues that have arisen over the deployment of new high-speed telecommunications services.