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telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of …) both bring about productivity and quality improvements and reduce the prices of all the telecommunications services …
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particular in the telecommunications sector. Regulatory reforms and technological innovation fuelled expectations of robust …
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This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for telecommunications. The STRIs are composite … telecommunications and captures regulations in force in 2013. The scores range between 0.06 and 0.61, with a sample average of 0 …
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In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the …. This raises significant concerns about the competitive effects of such contracts in media and telecommunications markets. …
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This article combines a discrete choice model of demand for residential local telephone access and an optimal price …
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Contractual and regulatory provisions for access affect incentives to invest in an upgraded network and, in particular, a next-generation access network. Investment decisions are made under uncertainty and have to be made over time. This papers provides a framework for taking uncertainty, risk...
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The liberalization of telecommunications has contributed to considerable price reductions in international telephony … and to rising volumes of telecommunications. This raises the issue of the economic impact of international telephony … producers in the tradables sector - this lets us to expect trade creation effects of international telecommunications. Based on …
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countries for the period 1999–2006, we examine whether centralization promotes new telecommunications markets, in particular the …
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The liberalization of telecommunications is largely based on the premise that increasing competition will encourage … telecommunications operators in OECD countries between 1994 and 2008, and we conclude that greater competitive pressure fosters …
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There were enormous differences in the revenues from the European ‘third generation’ (3G, or ‘MTS’) mobile-phone license auctions, from 20 Euros per capita in Switzerland to 650 Euros per capita in the UK, though the values of the licences sold were similar. Poor auction designs in some...
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