Local competition in telecommunications in the United States: Supporting conditions, policies, and impacts

Edward J. Malecki ()
Additional contact information
Edward J. Malecki: Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1361, USA

The Annals of Regional Science, 2002, vol. 36, issue 3, 437-454

Abstract: The telecommunications landscape is very different from the days of the national monopolies. Deregulation, coupled with technological change, has affected the types of telecommunications, the providers of service, and the availability of various service bundles. This paper looks at one dimension of the new landscape: the facility-based investment by new providers in metropolitan areas in the USA. New providers include those who target high-volume business customers as well as the more widespread wireless service. A data set comprising central office switches permits analysis of the location and the type service provision by the new telecommunications competitors in American cities.

JEL-codes: L51 L96 R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-10-21
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00168/papers/2036003/20360437.pdf (application/pdf)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:anresc:v:36:y:2002:i:3:p:437-454

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://link.springer.com/journal/168

Access Statistics for this article

The Annals of Regional Science is currently edited by Martin Andersson, E. Kim and Janet E. Kohlhase

More articles in The Annals of Regional Science from Springer, Western Regional Science Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().