Regulatory commission hearings on intra-LATA toll competition have focused, for the purpose of revenue rebalancing, on the market elasticity of demand for intra-LATA toll service. This paper presents estimates of the intra-LATA toll elasticity based on a detailed model of residential customers'...

Under the Telecommunications Act, estimates of local distribution costs may be used to help quantify the subsidy for specified local services whose costs exceed their tariffed rates and as a guide for the pricing of unbundled network elements. The most widely circulated model for estimating...