This paper explores the relationship between certainty of bandwidth and certainty of pricefor Internet services over a statistically shared network. Both are important policyobjectives. Certainty of bandwidth is necessary if the Internet is to serve as a platform foradvanced communications,...

There is growing sentiment that rate rebalancing to eliminate crosssubsidies between local business and local residential telephone marketsis necessary to induce efficient entry in the residential market. If theelasticity of supply with respect to the relative prices for businessand residential...