Regulatory Uncertainty: The Impact of the 2015 Open Internet Order on Broadband Infrastructure Investment
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2018-04-18
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This paper analyzes the impact of the United States Federal Communication's (FCC) March 2015 Open Internet Order (OIO) on broadband infrastructure investment outcomes such as changes in speed of services, market entry. We find that higher broadband investment levels deter potential entrants and may weed out competition amongst incumbent ISPs from December 2014 to December 2016. The 2015 OIO appears to have negatively impacted the probability of an ISP entering a census block for the first time by 7.17% during any six-month time periods from June 2015 to December 2016 compared to the time period from June 2010 to December 2014.
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Burkholder, Dane, and Chin Jie Lim (2018). Regulatory Uncertainty: The Impact of the 2015 Open Internet Order on Broadband Infrastructure Investment. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16720.
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