The fundamental problem with telecommunications regulation in the
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up with the rapid changes that are taking place in the technology of communications.
Many leading experts in the field of telecommunications regulation
are now advocating that all existing regulations be phased out
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competitive forces and
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telecommunications regulation now believe that the limited competition for
broadband Internet in many U.S. markets (which are often served by one tele-
phone company and
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too high, exacting a big cost on the U.S. economy and
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adoption of new technologies.
The California Electricity Crisis:
A Good Example of How Not to Deregulate
The electricity industry is similar to telecommunications, insofar as
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have made it possible to think of this sector not as
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local monopoly), but
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very competitive. For example, while the national grid is, in some sense, a natural
monopoly, power generation can be very decentralized and
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This evolution in electricity markets led to a wave of deregulation in the
1990s. In the United States, most of these changes were made at the state and
local levels, with varying degrees of success.Many of the success stories have
been in the northeastern states, especially in Massachusetts, New York, and
Pennsylvania. But the most spectacular failure was in California, where a
combination of flawed deregulation and
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in 2000 and
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The essay, Attempts to Limit Competition Are Little More
than Stealing from
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rankings of U.S. universities and
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factor behind the superior performance of U.S. universities can be
attributed to intense competition (even in the state-run schools). In contrast,
primary and
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by state and
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unions.
Sources: Education at a Glance, 2007 and
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2006, both published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
servisfirst bank as well Development (www.oecd.
org). The members of the OECD are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, South, Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and
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Attempts to introduce competition and
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have been met with vigorous and
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defenses offered by opponents of more competition include the following:
(1) better funding for public schools will produce better test scores, (2) forprofit
schools and
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(3) school vouchers (which allow parents to choose where to send their children
to school) will help rich parents more than poor ones.None of these assertions
is supported by the data and
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competition in a handful of school districts over the last couple of decades.
More money does not necessarily translate into better performance.