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Telecommunications Policy

Volume 15, Issue 6, December 1991, Pages 509-518
Telecommunications Policy

Value-added services: Regulation and reality in the USA

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Abstract

This article examines the development of value-added services (VAS) in the USA and is the companion to an article by the same authors in the last issue of Telecommunications Policy, which focused on Germany. There is a detailed discussion of how demand-side and supply-side factors are affecting the VAS market in the context of US regulatory policy. Restrictions imposed on the activities of AT&T by the Modified Final Judgment of 1982, although later somewhat relaxed, led to a very different development of such services than has occurred in Germany or other European countries. Nevertheless these different paths may eventually lead to the same goal of totally free competition in all telecommunication services.

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    Dr Michael Dowling is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA (Tel: 404-542 3702).

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    Prof Dr Dres hc Eberhard Witte is head of the Institute of Organization at the University of Munich, Ludwigstrasse 28 Rgb, 8000 München 22, Germany (Tel: 089-21803555).

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