Course Number: 806
Length: 2 Days
This course provides a typology that maps social goals concerning marketplace activities to the regulatory interventions, if any, necessary to accomplish those goals, focusing on universal service policies. There is general agreement that, at a minimum, the fundamental goal of universal service in the United States is access for all Americans to basic analog voice-grade service at affordable rates.
Who Should Attend
Managers and team members in cross-functional organizations, who need basic overview of telecom deregulation.
Objectives
- Global telecom markets - Exploring new opportunities
- Recognize the importance of telecom deregulation in different part of the world
- How do service providers compete? What are the factors?
- Liberating the Internet
- Overview of Telecommunications Act of 1996
- Understand the role and globalization in the telecom domain
- Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) in telecom
- and more
Outline
Executive summary
- Social goals underlying universal service and related economic problems
- Social goals of universal service and corresponding regulatory mechanisms
- Unilateral versus bilateral rule typology
- The current situation
- Analysis and conclusions
- Issues associated with the threat of a regulatory taking
- Summary of prohibited government interventions
- Constitutional limits on government action absent preexisting conditions
- Constitutional limits on government actions due to preexisting conditions
A conceptual framework for managing a transition to a more competitive industry: an economic analysis
- Need for compatibility between policy goals and regulatory interventions
- Principles for ensuring compatibility of regulatory interventions with policy goals
- Unilateral and bilateral rules
- Competition and choices among rules
- Implications for meeting universal service goals through competition
- Managing the transition to a more competitive industry
A conceptual framework for permissible economic regulation
- a legal analysis
- takings and due process clauses
- General application
- Application to public utilities
- Equal protection clause
- General application
- Application to public utilities
- Supremacy clause
- General application
- Application to public utilities
- Contract clause
- Ex post facto laws
- Effects of multiple constitutional provisions
Comparison of economic and legal analyses
- Liberalization Objectives
- Liberalization Process of Telecom Industry
- Fixed Telecommunication Network Services Market
- Wireless Market
- Satellite-based Market
- Cable-based market
- International Services
- Broadband Market
- Cellular Services
- Key Players in Deregulated Market
- A Snapshot Evaluation of Liberalization Policies
- Impact on Network Diversity
- Impact on Market Churn/Choice of operators
- Impact on Service Offerings and Pricing
- Impact on Consumers
Key Players in Deregulated Market
- The Operators Profile
- The Strong Players' Profiles
- North America
- Europe
- Asia
- Latin America
- Australia
- Africa
Assessment of Deregulation Effects
- A Snapshot Evaluation of Liberalization and Deregulation Policies
- Impact on Network Diversity
- Impact on Market Churn/Choice of operators
- Impact on Service Offerings and Pricing
- Impact on Consumers
- SWOT Analysis of new entrants
- Are the objectives of deregulation being met?
Telecommunications Act of 1996
- The first major overhaul of telecommunications law in almost 62 years
- Change in communications business
- The Federal Communications Commission has a tremendous role
- The U.S. Telecommunications Industry
- The Local Telephone Industry
- The Yellow Pages Industry
- The Relationship Between Local Telcos and Yellow Pages
- The Divestiture of AT&T
- Effects of Divestiture on Yellow Pages
- Telecommunications Industry Deregulation Today
- Local Phone Competition
- Potential Impact on Yellow Pages
- Telecom Deregulation and Yellow Pages
State Regulations
- Overview
- Leading Telephone Companies
- Local Telephone Companies
- The Regulatory Environment
- Potential Effects of State Regulations Current State Regulations
Local Phone Competition
- Overview
- The Local Phone Market
- Profiles of Local Exchange Carriers
- Status of Local Phone Competition
Long Distance Phone Competition
- Overview
- The Long Distance Phone Market
- Profiles of Long Distance Carriers (IXCs)
- Status of Long Distance Competition
Federal Legislation
- Overview
- Local Competition
- Listings
- Electronic Publishing
Internet Liberalization
- Improving the Internet Protection Act.
- Exempt the Internet from the FCC's universal service proposals
- Narrowly define encryption regulation
- Reverse the burden of proof
- Post Deregulation of Telecom Market
- Current Cable & Wireless Telecom's market share
- Competitive advantages and strategies for the new Digital Age
- The significance of these players in the future