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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.
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This research was supported in part by a TVA Rural Studies Competitive Research Contract. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the State University of New York at Buffalo, at the 1999 Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, Richmond, Virginia, and at the International Workshop, `Entrepreneurship, ICT and Local Policy Initiatives: Comparative Analyses and Lessons,' Amsterdam, May, 2000. I am grateful for the helpful comments of Sean Gorman, Peter Rogerson, Roger Stough and Aleta Wilson.
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Malecki, E. Local competition in telecommunications in the United States: Supporting conditions, policies, and impacts. Ann Reg Sci 36, 437–454 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680200095
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680200095