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Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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GAO-07-80 November 29, 2006

Government agencies and businesses that require significant capacity to meet voice and data needs depend on dedicated access services. This segment of the telecommunications market generated about $16 billion in revenues for the major incumbent firms in 2005. a...

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...telecommunications The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has historically regulated dedicated access prices. With the Telecommunications Act of 1996, FCC reformed its rules to rely on competition to bring about cost-based pricing. Starting in 2001, FCC granted pricing flexibility on the basis of proxy measure of competition. GAO examined (1)...

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