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Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: A two-sided market analysis
Köksal, Emin - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
In this paper, we examine welfare implications of switching from a neutrality regime to a network management regime. While in the former a network provider or an integrated ISP should transmit data with a-bit-is-a-bit principle, in the latter it is allowed to differentiate its connection quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295154
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Are classroom internet use and academic performance higher after government broadband subsidies to primary schools?
Hyland, Marie; Layte, Richard; Lyons, Sean; McCoy, Selina; … - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
survey microdata on schools', teachers' and pupils use of the internet to examine the links between public subsidies …, classroom use of the internet and educational performance. Provision of broadband service under a government scheme was … associated with more than a doubling of teachers' use of the internet in class after about a two year lag. Better computing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954844
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986549
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On the weal and woe of internet traffic management in Europe: A critical appraisal from a network economic perspective
Stocker, Volker - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has recently proposed a framework to assess the reasonableness of traffic management (TM) practices. This paper discusses BEREC's proposal from a network economic perspective focusing on the underlying concepts of congestion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954834
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954842
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Spectrum licensing, policy instruments and market entry
Madden, Gary; Bohlin, Erik; Tran, Thien; Morey, Aaron - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
Competition policy attempts to address the potential for market failure by encouraging competition in service markets. Often, in wireless communication service markets, national regulatory authorities seek to encourage entry via the spectrum assignment process. Instruments used include the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954846
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954896
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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
broadband Internet and measuring the determinants that explain the use of each of the technologies available to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954902
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Resilience analysis of the ICT ecosystem
Koslowski, Thomas G.; Longstaff, Patricia H.; Vidal, Miguel - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956633