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Unlocking the potential of the smart metering technology: How can regulation level the playing-field for new services in smart grids?
Kranz, Johann; Picot, Arnold; Roemer, Benedikt - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
ensure a level playing-field for innovative services in smart grids and consider implications for research and regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372273
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Incentive to invest in improving the quality in telecommunication industry
Jeanjean, François - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment incentives are positively related to the potential for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956675
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Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: A two-sided market analysis
Köksal, Emin - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
may not defined clearly, both in monopoly and in duopoly models we have found that end-users and quality-sensitive content …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295154
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954902
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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
We study the implementation of reasonably efficient operator margin squeeze tests by National Regulatory Authorities in European telecommunications markets. We provide a theoretical framework in which we show how regulatory authorities deal with the asymmetries between the entrants and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956659
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The impact of Broadband quality standards on Internet services market structure in Colombia
Hidalgo, Julian; Oviedo, Juan D. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
are able to identify the effect of quality regulation on the behavior of internet providers in a differentiated product … regulation is a more intense product differentiation that contributes to demand expansion and therefore to improve broadband …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958864
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Fixed to VoIP Interconnection: Regulation with Asymmetric Termination Costs
Stühmeier, Torben - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
as the voice of internet protocol (VoIP) telephony. Regulation with a supply-side asymmetry has rarely been addressed …. Considering both a supply-side and a demand- side asymmetry, the present model analyzes the effects different regulation regimes …. Regulation may have adverse effects on subscribers, market shares, and profits. If providers can discriminate between on-net and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295149
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Procompetitive infrastructure sector regulation and diffusion of innovation: The case of broadband networks
Gruber, Harald; Koutroumpis, Pantelis - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372230
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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