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Deregulating fixed voice services? Empirical evidence from the European Union
Šaric, Amela; Lange, Mirjam R. J. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
This paper deals with the relationship between the traditional fixed-line, mobile and Voice over IP telephony in the EU.We estimate the supply and demand for fixed-line telephony using data on 25 EU member states for the 2006:Q2 - 2011:Q4 period. Employing instrumental variable approach, we...
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Electronic communications regulation in Europe: An overview of past and future problems
Parcu, Pier Luigi; Silvestri, Virginia - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
For many years electronic communications has been one of the most important areas of policy intervention for the European Union. Liberalisation and privatisation of the telecommunications industry have been very important topics of the policy debate in the two decades starting from 1990 to 2010....
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Competition for access provision: Infrastructure upgrades with spillovers
Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizuno, Keizo - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
investment cost is low. We also show that, when voluntary access provision occurs in equilibrium, access regulation is socially … desirable only if the degree of spillover is small and the investment cost is high. On the contrary, access regulation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958851
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How many ladders of investment?
Herrera-González, Fernando - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The ladder of investment is a regulatory approach that has been used by European National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), in order to foster infrastructure competition among operators. the idea is to force incumbent operators to open several levels of access to their network in such a way that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372248
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Deregulating fixed voice services? Empirical evidence from the European Union
Lange, Mirjam R. J.; Šaric, Amela - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
Commission's current decision to lift the ex ante regulation on the fixed-line telephony market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161143
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Access regulation and geographic deployment of a new generation infrastructure
Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
supposed to be high on the ADSL market because of already existing regulation. We assume that two types of operators are …. At stage 3, OPf1 and OPf2 compete à la Cournot. This common framework allows us to show that the regulation defining … access price in order to maximise infrastructure deployment is strictly equivalent to the case in which no regulation applies …
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Investment, dynamic consistency and the sectoral regulator's obective
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
We explore the separation of powers between the legislative and the executive branch of government as a way of overcoming the dynamic consistency problem of regulatory policy towards investment. We model the industry as a regulated duopoly. The incumbent is a vertically integrated firm that owns...
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Polynomics telecommunication regulation index 2012
Zenhaeuserna, Patrick; Schneiderb, Yves - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
In order to study the effect of sector-specific regulation on industry behavior and market outcome, regulatory density … must be measured. The Polynomics Telecommunication Regulation Index 2012 aims to provide such a measure for …
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Economic replicability tests for next-generation access networks
Jaunaux, Laure; Lebourges, Marc - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
This paper discusses the relevant cost standard for the economic replicability test for Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks, described in the Recommendation on Costing and Non-discrimination adopted by the European Commission. We demonstrate that a cost standard that implies fully fixed and...
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Dynamics of broadbands demand: Substitution or complementarity between fixed and mobile technologies? An application to the Portuguese case
Silva, Rita Filipe; Proença, Isabel; Vareda, João - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
The development of the broadband market is a key aspect of the economic and social growth of a country. However, despite the importance and the development of broadband market in Portugal in recent years, especially with the explosion of the number of mobile broadband accesses, the studies for...
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