Telecommunications Reform in Germany: Lessons and Priorities : Bonn, Germany 20 November 1997American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1998 - Telecommunication - 154 pages |
Contents
INDEPENDENCE AND THE REGULATORY | 12 |
LONG RUN INCREMENTAL COSTS AND | 22 |
COSTING AND PRICING OF INTERCONNECTION | 51 |
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access charges accounting rate AICGS approach areas assets Basic Telecom Agreement best current practice bottom-up model BT's call termination common costs competitors conveyance cost accounting cost-based countries customers derived Deutsche Telekom developed Document economic ECPR efficient entrants entry established carriers European Commission exchange segment firm Germany ILECs implementation incentives incumbent's interconnection charges interconnection pricing interconnection services investment issue liberalization local loop local-loop unbundling long run long-distance long-run incremental costs loop LRIC mark-up market power monopolistic bottleneck monopoly national regulatory authorities OFTEL operators opportunity cost political rate rebalancing regulatory agencies retail prices run incremental cost stand-alone costs switch tandem tariffs Telecommunications Act telecommunications markets telecommunications networks telecommunications services telephone top-down model U.S. Telecom Act unbundled network elements universal service funding universal service obligations Universal Service Order universal service policy users Varies by density voice telephony WTO Basic Telecom