Numerous studies have demonstrated that investment in telecommunications infrastructure and other forms of information technology is the primary cause of the acceleration in productivity growth, which began in the late 1990s and has continued, unabated, to the present. Economists also recognize...

Proposals to increase regulation of mobile wireless services, for example, by applying “net neutrality” regulation, are often based on claims that such regulation would enhance innovation and increase consumer choice. In fact, they would have the opposite effect. The business practices that...

In recent years, twelve U.S. states have liberalized price controls on basic telephone services, and several others are considering doing so. To assess the impact of these changes, we collected and analyzed a comprehensive data set on basic telephone prices and on the specific characteristics of...

The emergence of competition in the telecommunications sector, combined with the convergence of previously separate telecommunications technologies - cable, telephone, satellite, wireless - into a single marketplace have made the current telecommunications tax regime unworkable and created an...