Core issue before FCC's proposed Title II rules: regulating advanced telecom as a common carrier utility
EldoTelecom
MARCH 23, 2024
Conventional economic theory distinguishes a public utility from a supplier of goods and services in a market by identifying whether the good in question is a monopoly. In many parts of urban and rural California, internet services are indeed a monopoly—or at best a duopoly. The common policy response to the monopoly is to either place the service provider into public hands or use a regulatory framework to curtail the ability of the provider to exploit a monopoly position.
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