Role of UNE Pricing in Telecom Competition
There are several aspects of competition in modern telecommunications
networks that are the subjects of continuing policy debates.
Included among these are questions about pricing and the terms of
interconnection, vertical integration, and whether infrastructure
sharing is in the public interest. This page provides links to
some of our recent work in this area.
"Unbundled Network Elements" or UNEs
- (May
2004) "UNE-P Benefits Update: SBC's California Territory, 2004"
(Documents that two years of competition now provides annual savings of
over $300 million to California residential telephone subscribers)
- Report (Adobe
PDF format; 2 pages)
- Excel spreadsheet
calculating savings in SBC's
California territory using current data
- (March 2004) "UNE-P
Benefits in Verzon's New Jersey Territory"
- Report on New
Jersey
savings (Adobe PDF format; 3 pages)
- Excel spreadsheet
calculating savings in Verizon's New
Jersey territory
- (August 2003) Excel spreadsheet
calculating expected savings in Verizon's
California territory
- (May 2003) "The Role of
UNE-P in Vertically Integrated Telephone Networks: Ensuring Healthy and
Competitive Local, Long-Distance and DSL Markets"
- (May 2002) My op-ed column on "unbundled network elements"
(UNEs) has appeared on C-Net,ZD
Net, and in the San
Jose Mercury News (May
14,
2002). After the CPUC ruling, the Mercury
News ran an editorial
on this topic (May 22, 2002).
(Has a number of related links.)
[The opinions or statements expressed herein
should not be taken as
a position of or endorsement by the University of
California, Berkeley.]
Page maintained by YMB
Last updated: 18 May 2004