The FCC and the Decline in AT&T's Long Distance Residential Rates, 1980-1992: Did Price Caps Do It?

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 537-553

  Edelman, Susan A ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AT T; FCC; Price caps; Regulation; Telephony

Indexed keywords

LONG DISTANCE RATES; PRICE CAPS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEPHONE SERVICES;

USA;

EID: 0031435977     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007769726331     Document Type: Article

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