This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

The competitiveness of a country and entire regions today is strongly connected to its broadband adaptation. Broadband is not only playing a critical success role in the economy, it connects consumers, businesses, governments and facilitates social interaction. Many studies have been carried out...

Throughout the last decade, the telecommunications sector has been subject to substantial changes in most countries of the world. Increased computational power, higher transmission capacities in combination with an openly and independently designed transport layer for packet switched data (IP)...

Almost twelve years ago, telecommunications market in Brazil went through deregulation and privatization processes. Since then, it has been operated solely by private-owned companies. This model, combined with lack of directive policies and absence of real competition, led to high price and low...

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and...

This research identifies the reason for wide disparity in the investment in high speed broadband infrastructure through technologies such as Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) i.e. FTTx broadband. We employ a panel data analysis technique to identify the factors impacting...