Network spillovers as an alternative efficiency argument for universal service policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-273
Author(s):  
Seon-Kyou Choi ◽  
Dong-Ju Kim ◽  
Hyeong-Chan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Universal Service ◽  
Service Policy

scholarly journals It's Time: Reimaging Universal Service for Digital Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Universal Service ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
Productive Research

This article provides a brief introduction to a timely set of papers critically discussing universal service in telecommunications and proposing policy option. This is a longstanding public policy issue, moving once more into the foreground in Australia. The article puts the papers into context, and argues for the need to reconnect universal service policy with fertile and productive research, policy, social and technology innovation in other areas. Finally, the paper argues for the urgent need to fundamentally reimagine universal service to achieve the still relevant goal of access for all to essential communications technology.

scholarly journals Universal Service and Competition

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
John De Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Universal Service ◽  
Cook Islands ◽  
Access Pricing ◽  
Uniform Pricing ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
The Impact

The author is advising the Cook Islands on how to introduce mobile competition, drawing on the experience of Australia. In both countries the impact of infrastructure competition on mandated geographically uniform pricing is being (or proposed to be) addressed with a levy. The different approaches to measuring costs and setting the levy are contrasted. The paper proposes that a universal service levy has to be coupled with consistent access pricing to have efficient competition consistent with universal service policy. Interconnection between networks is free but the pricing of resold wholesale services should be consistent with the aims of the levy; to ensure universal service and efficient competition.

Re‐thinking European universal service policy for the digital era: Editors' conclusions

Info ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 166-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Milne ◽  
Claudio Feijoo
Keyword(s):  
Universal Service ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Service Policy

Stages of universal service policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 775-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Milne
Keyword(s):  
Universal Service ◽  
Service Policy
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