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In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The … empirically evaluates the impact of regulation in selected Latin American countries. The results are only suggestive, but not … conclusive - that weaker regulation supports investment in the ICT sector due to higher prices for the service. …
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In September 2010 the Croatian regulatory agency (HAKOM) put in force the ordinance on technical requirements and conditions of use of optical distribution networks. With this ordinance the Croatian regulatory agency is looking over the rim by proposing a rather technical approach for the...
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of South Africa, Namibia and Kenya where regulators have reduced termination rates towards the cost of an efficient … and Kenya, experienced significant retail price reduction following substantial termination rate reductions, the case of …-to-face interviews on termination rate regulations were also held with regulators in Kenya, Namibia and South Africa. The analysis is …
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We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … growth. We find that mobile services contribute much more to growth but that the effect diminishes as the provincial economy …
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The China telecom mobile business has grown fast during the past ten years. For example, China Mobil subscribers have increased from 13.68 million to reach 1.146 billion in March 2013; Mobile Internet subscribers grew by 13.94 million in March to reach a total of 817.39 million. The mobile...
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the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we …
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regulation, competition, and investment depend on the construction of indicators employed to evaluate this interaction …
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Technological progress allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to carry out network manage-ment practices in a discriminatory fashion without being detected by their customers. This creates an opportunity that providers will exploit this information asymmetry in an opportunistic way by blocking...
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competition, the wholesale price must be a two-part tariff and the economic replicability test should only be based on variable … wholesale prices. We underline that during a transition phase, until competitors have secured access to NGA infrastructure, a …
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states for the years from 2004 to 2012. The results show that the more effective previous broadband access regulation is, the …-linear manner. It appears that the approach of strict cost-based access regulation embedded in the EU regulatory framework is at …
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