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TVWS policies to enable efficient spectrum sharing
Dosch, Christoph; Kubasik, Jerzy; Silva, Carlos Filipe M. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The transition from analogue to the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTV) in Europe is planned to be completed by the end of the year 2012. The DTV spectrum allocation is such that there are a number of TV channels which cannot be used for additional high power broadcast transmitters due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372232
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Ex-ante margin squeeze tests in the telecommunications industry: What is a reasonable efficient operator? (Revised: December 20, 2012)
Gaudiny, Germain; Saavedra Valenzuela, Claudia - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
European telecommunications markets. We provide a theoretical framework in which we show how regulatory authorities deal with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956659
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Assessment of sectoral innovation systems approach: The case of Turkish internet service market
Tözer, Ayhan; Göktaylar, Yavuz - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to evaluate sectoral innovation system of Turkish internet service market by looking into some case studies and making interviews with related actors. In this attempt, firstly, a sectoral innovation systems approach has been described briefly from theoretical point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372236
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Broadband prices in the European Union: Competition and commercial strategies
Calzada, Joan; Martínez, Fernando - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
This paper analyzes the factors that determine the prices of Interne broadband access in a group of 15 EU countries in the period 2008-2011. Our econometric model shows the effect of several technical characteristics of the operator's offers: while the downstream speed has a positive impact in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983881
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Analysis of business opportunities of secondary use of spectrum: The case of TV white space for mobile broadband access
Markendahl, Jan; Mäkitalo, Östen - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The introduction of mobile broadband technology, smartphones and dongles has resulted in a tremendous increase of mobile data traffic. Future demand for more capacity can be met by allocation of more bandwidth and new spectrum bands to mobile communication. But spectrum is a scarce resource and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372233
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation: Evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954861
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Impact of regulatory process on telecommunications market performance: Evidence from parametric and non parametric approach
Khalifa, Ahmed Ben; Slama, Ramzi Ben; Debbichi, Sami - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
In this paper we explore the impact of regulation; privatization and competition on the both mobile and fixed phone … first, analyze the effect of regulation, privatization and competition on mobile networks performance in terms of quality … between indicators: independence, regulation, competition and privatization on the market performance. The second approach is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011104977
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Ex-ante margin squeeze tests in the telecommunications industry: What is a reasonably efficient operator? (Revised: September 6, 2012)
Gaudin, Germain; Saavedra Valenzuela, Claudia - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
squeeze tests by European telecommunications National Regulatory Authorities according to these adjustments, as to build a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956662
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Ex-ante margin squeeze tests in the telecommunications industry: What is a reasonably efficient operator?
Gaudin, Germain; Saavedra Valenzuela, Claudia - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
telecommunications National Regulatory Authorities according to these adjustments, as to build a comparable benchmark of implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956670
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Coexistence of copper and fiber unbundling: Access charges and investment incentives
Tselekounis, Markos; Orfanou, Georgia; Varoutas, Dimitris - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in fiber access networks. Once the fiber deployment is in place, the incumbent and the entrant compete for consumers in both copper and fiber markets. We show that when the regulator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958849