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-operating licenses, followed by development of a regulatory policy framework to promote competition. Yet, the development of the country …'s regulatory policy is still on going. In terms of spectrum management, spectrum is regulated and allocated by the Department. At …. Therefore, the need for a transparent spectrum policy, that is, monitoring, identifying spectrum that is already in use, and …
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The availability of undersea cables around Africa has been transformed by a recent surge of investment, ending the monopoly in West Africa and an absence in East Africa. Private investors alone and with governments have funded the laying of cables. Consequently, previous calls for regulated...
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The purpose is to introduce policy proposals for universal access to broadband, assessing the hypothetical … direct subsidies and (iii) service tax relief. Finally, the expected effects of each policy are compared and a hybrid model …
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This article reviews the effectiveness of Colombia's social telecommunications policy in terms of promoting fixed … broadband. With a trajectory of almost a decade with subsidies for residential fixed voice, the government changed its policy in …
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This paper analysis the Internet interconnection market and combine the main technical (i.e. service quality) and economic aspects (i.e. profits and utility) characterizing relations between market players (end users, EUs; Internet Service Providers, ISPs; Internet Backbone Providers, IBPs) in...
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Fibre deployment of next-generation high-speed broadband networks is considered to be a decisive development for any information-based society, yet investment activities and especially the adoption of fibre-based broadband services take place only very gradually in most countries. This work...
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lead mobile ecosystem evolution and how factors such as competition, regulation and profitability affects a carriers … ecosystems from the view point of market competition conditions and profit level by comparing the market condition of the US and …
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incentives are positively related to the potential for technical progress. They also depend on market structure, competition …. As a result, the maximum consumer surplus as well as welfare occurs under imperfect competition and not under perfect … competition. …
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This paper empirically assesses the impact of the intensity of competition on investment in new technologies within the …-U relationship between competition intensity and investment. The intermediate level of competition intensity that maximizes … investment stands at 62 percent, whereby competition intensity is measured by 1-Lerner index at the firm level. This means that …
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In this study, we compare and contrast the U.S. and Korea in the context of network neutrality, focusing on debates among stakeholders and regulatory approaches. Interesting similarities and differences are highlighted by comparisons within the broadband ecosystem framework: government...
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