being made. In this Article, we examine the economic principles that should govern competition and regulatory policies … Canadian cable television industry should be protected from competition while it upgrades its network to provide interactive …

competition and drawing implications for public policy. The report was commissioned by The Brussels Round Table, a forum for …-based competition', where providers are using all (or some of) their own infrastructure, and 'access-based competition', where providers …-based competition is desirable in telecommunications and has an important role in delivering innovations such as broadband. However …

products. Next, we examine four major rationales for regulatory intervention of this kind: (1) competition in the form of lower … prices and greater innovation in retail markets is desirable, (2) competition in retail markets cannot be achieved with … investment hypothesis), and (4) competition in wholesale access markets is desirable. We proceed by testing empirically the major …

This book discusses local competition in the telecommunications sector. …