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 …

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 …

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. …

reform. The concept of a national telecommunications grid providing television and basic telephone services is questioned, as …

) market to competition. In Spain, both local and foreign firms challenged the incumbent as of April 2003. The latter abused …

In this Paper we consider the economics of platform competition in telecommunications. Platform competition occurs when … competition in telecommunications include wireless vs. wireline networks, competing wireless options, such as satellite vs … different, sometimes incompatible, technologies compete to provide telecommunications services to end-users. Battles between …

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