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ILEC

A local telephone company that was in existence at the time AT&T was broken up into the baby bells.

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TELRIC pricing was originally adopted at a time when U.S.

Are regulators forward-looking? The market price of copper versus the regulated price of mandatory access to unbundled local loops in telecommunications networks

TELRIC eludes the problems caused by the distinction between fixed and

Toward a unified theory of access to local telephone networks

The FCC's rule adopting TELRIC was initially challenged in

Verizon Communications, Inc. V. FCC - telecommunications access pricing and regulator accountability through administrative law and takings jurisprudence

The place to begin in defining TELRIC is with the regulation itself, (47) and the FCC's initial Report and Order setting forth TELRIC.

TELRIC vs. universal service: a takings violation?

(88) The court warned the FCC not to use an open-ended standard for assessing the viability of competition, particularly in light of the court's apparent disdain for access pricing decisions using TELRIC that "cut further into ILEC revenues in areas where ILECs' service is mandated by state law--and mandated to be offered at artificially low rates funded by ILECs' supracompetitive profits in other areas." (89)

What do pizza delivery and information services have in common? Lessons from recent judicial and regulatory struggles with convergence

One has been that unbundling of network elements at TELRIC prices would lower incentives for investments in facilities to provide advanced services: incumbents' incentives would be lower if TELRIC prices do not account for the risk associated with new investments, and entrants might wait to invest until after they had the opportunity to develop experience with the successful investments of incumbents through purchase of unbundled elements.

V. Product market competition and economic performance

Second, the FCC pre-empted state regulatory discretion over pricing to the extent of mandating that unbundled network elements be priced on the basis of "forward looking" incremental costs (dubbed "Total Element Long-Run Incremental Cost" (TELRIC)).

On refusing to deal with rivals

Specifically, this allows the FCC to require that the state regulatory commissions use total element long-run incremental cost (TELRIC), the FCC's favored methodology in setting prices for interconnection and network elements.

Federalism, Preemption, and Implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act

In contrast, in proceedings to set prices, terms, and conditions of mandatory access to local telecommunications networks under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, entrants and regulators (including the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission) advocated regulated prices set at total element long-run incremental cost (TELRIC) plus a reasonable share of forward-looking common costs.

Essential facilities

8 The FCC and state regulatory commissions have interpreted these words to mean Total Element Long Run Incremental Cost (TELRIC), which is the forward-looking, long-run, (minimized) economic cost of an unbundled element and includes the competitive return on capital.

U.S. telecommunications today

against their attacks on TELRIC (total element long-run incremental cost

Reflecting on twenty years under the Telecommunications Act of 1996: a collection of essays on implementation

The agency ordered incumbent providers to unbundle the network elements underlying virtually every retail service that they offered at prices based on the suspect "TELRIC" costing methodology designed to produce artificially low access rates.

Groundhog Day at the FCC: consumers don't benefit from "reflexive protectionism."