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Workshop: Economic Issues in Broadband Competition
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Location & Coordinators
Date: 10/9/09
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room)
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Directions
Coordinator: Jonathan Levy
Phone: (202) 418-2048
Agenda and Participant Bios
Frequently Asked Questions
Consumer and firm demand for broadband and provider supply of broadband services are both influenced by the extent of competition among broadband providers. Competition can deliver low prices and high quality services to buyers, and influence the scope and timing of provider investments and innovation.
This workshop will explore the extent to which broadband providers currently exercise market power today, the prospects for new competition, strategies the FCC and other governmental actors can employ to foster competition and entry, and regulatory strategies that might help prevent harms to social welfare in markets not likely to become competitive soon.
Topics
The following are some of the preliminary topics that will be covered at this workshop. If you would like to discuss any other topics, please send us your suggestions.
- Do broadband providers currently exercise market power? How does the answer vary by type of customer and geographic region?
- What are the prospects for new broadband competition from wireless and electricity providers? Are any other types of entry on the horizon?
- What strategies should the FCC and other governmental actors employ to foster broadband competition and entry?
- What regulatory strategies would protect competition and consumers in broadband markets not performing competitively? What conduct by broadband monopolists or duopolists would be particularly troublesome? Can that conduct be prohibited at low cost in production efficiency, and without discouraging investment and innovation or distorting competition in unregulated markets?
Agenda
10:00 am | Workshop Introduction, Jonathan Baker, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission (on leave from Washington College of Law, American University) Moderator |
10:05 am | Panel Presentations: Judith A. Chevalier, William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale School of Management |
11:20 am | Panelist Discussion and Responses to Questions FCC Participants: Colin Crowell, Senior Counselor to the Chairman; Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering; John Leibovitz, Deputy Chief, Wireless Bureau; Dr. Jon Peha, Chief Technologist |
11:55 am | Closing Statements, Moderator |
12:00 Noon | Adjournment |
Relateds Documents
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on Broadband Competition and Product Bundles
Judith Chevalier, William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale School of Management
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Glimmers and Signs of Innovative Health in the Commericial Internet
Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University
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Remarks on Broadband Competition and Access Regulation
Marius Schwartz, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
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Workshop Transcript
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