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Roaming and Investments in the Mobile Internet Market
Stühmeier, Torben - 2012
networks under various regimes of data roaming charge regulation. Given an induced externality of investments (spillovers) due … cost regulation of roaming charges. Otherwise, if MNOs are free to collaborate on investments, they set higher investment …. Furthermore, the paper discusses e ects of the roaming charge regulation on roaming quality and MNOs' coverage. …
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Multisided Markets & Platform Dominance
Alleman, James; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113480
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Bork's Hoax: Antitrust and the Internet Market
Alleman, James - 2021
Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606279
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The Losing Case for Special Access Regulation
Downes, Larry - 2016
In 1999, the FCC largely deregulated middle-mile or "special access" enterprise communications services, resulting in explosive growth of new competitors using new technologies, including cable, fiber-optics, and high-speed Ethernet loops. But in recent years the agency has expressed increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002347
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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market
Alleman, James H. - 2021
Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804859
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Network Neutrality and Foreclosing Market Exchange : Transaction Cost Analysis
Ford, George S. - 2013
content and broadband providers. While proponents of such regulation may view it as protection from alleged anticompetitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711484
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151937
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Using Auction Results to Forecast the Impact of Wireless Carterfone Regulation on Wireless Networks (Second Edition)
Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013
In the last year, many advocates have called for the imposition of Carterfone regulation on the wireless industry. The … similar wireless Carterfone regulation to all commercial wireless spectrum could suppress wireless infrastructure investment … regulation across the board is likely to cause particular harm to small or medium-sized wireless firms by enhancing the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218521
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Network Neutrality and Industry Structure
Beard, Thomas Randolph; Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; … - 2007
One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050797
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Wireless Net Neutrality : From Carterfone to Cable Boxes
Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013
substantial risks that Carterfone-type regulation would commoditize wireless network services in a way that could substantially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050800