positive impact on the quality of the service provided. We also assess the impact of competition from an alternative form of … technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive …

Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive … telecommunications sector. We pay particular attention to how the effects of interest groups on policies vary from more democratic to …

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. …

motivating example is the 1996 Act in the United States which opens telecommunications markets to competition and contains a …

and political data to analyse both the determinants and the impact of telecommunications policies. We find that …

assesses whether the general principles need to be adapted when dealing with the telecommunications services industry. The …

This Paper examines a general problem exemplified by post-auction (third generation ‘3G’) mobile telecommunications … appropriate to achieve desired levels of competition in such settings. …