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Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap, COVID-19 and Telehealth, Spectrum Auctions, Communications Marketplace Report, and Economic Research

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is responsible for regulation in the communications marketplace and for management of the nation’s non-federal radio frequency spectrum. During the past year, FCC economists assisted in the development of initiatives that were aimed at closing the connectiv...

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Autores principales: Baker, Allison, Brogan, Patrick, DeGraba, Patrick, Dempsey, Judith, Janson, Michael, LaFontaine, Paul, Li, Cher, Makuch, Kim, Matraves, Catherine, Stancill, Martha, Stockdale, Donald, Woroch, Glenn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8590727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34803216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11151-021-09846-7
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author Baker, Allison
Brogan, Patrick
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LaFontaine, Paul
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Matraves, Catherine
Stancill, Martha
Stockdale, Donald
Woroch, Glenn
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description The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is responsible for regulation in the communications marketplace and for management of the nation’s non-federal radio frequency spectrum. During the past year, FCC economists assisted in the development of initiatives that were aimed at closing the connectivity gap which proved especially critical in light of the COVID-19 pandemic; contributed to the Commission’s extensive responses to COVID-19; were involved in various spectrum auctions; evaluated competition in the communications marketplace in the 2020 Communications Marketplace Report; and published a series of working papers.
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spelling pubmed-85907272021-11-15 Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap, COVID-19 and Telehealth, Spectrum Auctions, Communications Marketplace Report, and Economic Research Baker, Allison Brogan, Patrick DeGraba, Patrick Dempsey, Judith Janson, Michael LaFontaine, Paul Li, Cher Makuch, Kim Matraves, Catherine Stancill, Martha Stockdale, Donald Woroch, Glenn Rev Ind Organ Article The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is responsible for regulation in the communications marketplace and for management of the nation’s non-federal radio frequency spectrum. During the past year, FCC economists assisted in the development of initiatives that were aimed at closing the connectivity gap which proved especially critical in light of the COVID-19 pandemic; contributed to the Commission’s extensive responses to COVID-19; were involved in various spectrum auctions; evaluated competition in the communications marketplace in the 2020 Communications Marketplace Report; and published a series of working papers. Springer US 2021-11-14 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8590727/ /pubmed/34803216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11151-021-09846-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Brogan, Patrick
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Matraves, Catherine
Stancill, Martha
Stockdale, Donald
Woroch, Glenn
Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap, COVID-19 and Telehealth, Spectrum Auctions, Communications Marketplace Report, and Economic Research
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title_full_unstemmed Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap, COVID-19 and Telehealth, Spectrum Auctions, Communications Marketplace Report, and Economic Research
title_short Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap, COVID-19 and Telehealth, Spectrum Auctions, Communications Marketplace Report, and Economic Research
title_sort economics at the fcc 2020–21: closing the connectivity gap, covid-19 and telehealth, spectrum auctions, communications marketplace report, and economic research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8590727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34803216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11151-021-09846-7
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