Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition …

Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …

This paper develops and simulates a dynamic model of strategic telecom competition. The goal is to understand how … regulatory policy, particularly relative to lease charges for local network elements, affects telecom competition, investment … allow CLECs to lease their local network facilities was established in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as part of a quid …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …

control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between … the difficulties of the traditional approach to regulation and the benefits of introducing competition, we focus on the …. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of …

The regulation of telecommunications, railroads, and other network industries has been based on mandatory unbundling … voice telecommunications in the U.S …

policies reduced broadband access and competition in states with restrictions compared to states without restrictions leading …