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标题：Cross-Subsidies in Telecommunications: Roadblocks on the Road to More Intelligent Telephone Pricing
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作者：Kaserman, David L. ; Mayo, John W.
期刊名称：Yale Journal on Regulation
印刷版ISSN：0741-9457
出版年度：1994
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：6
出版社：Yale Law School
摘要：A decade ago, Alfred Kahn challenged regulators to adopt more efficient telephone pricing policies. They have yet to respond and instead have maintained a system of inefficient cross-subsidies. While some argue that the current system promotes universal telephone service, a careful examination reveals that the cross-subsidies do not further that goal. Professors Kaserman and Mayo argue that regulators maintain the current system because they believe that its pattern of cross-subsidization benefits a politically influential class-local residential customers. Kaserman and Mayo contend, however, that the regulators are wrong. the benefits from the current cross-subsidies are so diffused that abolishing them will not ultimately affect individual customers.