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Welcome and Opening Thoughts
Lawrence J. Spiwak
President
The Phoenix Center
2005 Phoenix Center Annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium
December 1, 2005 • Washington, D.C.
What’s New at the Phoenix Center…
Phoenix Center Papers:
Phoenix Center Policy Paper No. 21: Competition After Unbundling: Entry, Industry Structure and Convergence
Phoenix Center Policy Paper No. 22: The Consumer Welfare Cost of Cable “Build-out” Rules
Phoenix Center Policy Paper No. 23: The Impact of Video Service Regulation on the Construction of Broadband Networks to Low-Income Households
Phoenix Center Policy Bulletin No. 12: Franchise Fee Revenues After Video Competition: The “Competition
Dividend” for Local Governments
What’s New at the Phoenix Center…
Academic Publications:
Set It and Forget It? Market Power and the Consequences of Premature Deregulation in Telecommunications Markets, 1 NYU Journal of Law & Business 675 (Summer 2005).
The Economics of Build-out Rules in Cable Television, Hastings Communications and Entertainment (Comm/Ent) Law Journal (forthcoming Winter 2006).
American Bar Association’s Antitrust Telecom Handbook (June 2005).
What’s New at the Phoenix Center… Examples of Phoenix Center Staff Presentations in 2005:
Pike and Fisher Broadband Conference
National Consumers League Cable Conference (Washington)
National Consumers League Cable Conference (Los Angeles)
Americans For Tax Reform Wednesday Meetings
VON
Interconnection Summit – Prague
Conservative Political Action Committee Annual Meeting
Citizens Against Government Waste
MARC
MACRUC
US Telecom Conference
NATOA
FCC Consumer Advisory Committee Conference
NCSL
What’s New at the Phoenix Center…
Phoenix Center Sponsored Events: Congressional Briefing with keynote address by
Rep. Marsha Blackburn
NARUC Breakfast Briefing – NARUC Summer Meeting, Austin
NARUC Breakfast Briefing – NARUC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs
Annual Phoenix Center State Educational Retreat
Conference Theme: The New Frontier… 2005 will go down as a landmark year
Embracement of “facilities-based/inter-modal competition” No more unbundling No more independent IXCs Emergence of managed VoIP as real competitive substitute Technology is rapidly turning “single use networks” into
“multi-use” networks
What will the structure of this market look like and will we be happy with the results?
Yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Industry still characterized by high fixed and sunk costs “Policy-relevant” barriers to entry remain. Need for rigorous and cohesive analysis remains