... on the types of issues regulators need to consider and resolve when designing auctioning mechanisms for the competitive provision of universal service. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines the nature and scope of universal service, the approaches that have been used to identify the costs...

...Christian M. Dippon Asks whether the FCC is using the wrong cost model to try to balance incumbents of the US Telecommunications Act with new operators, to make things equal for all. Concludes that regulators around the world learn from the US’s experience in trying to avoid the use of cost proxy...