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This paper focuses on the development of local loop unbundling in the OECD. It examines policies for unbundling …, progress in achieving unbundling, and collocation and pricing policies for unbundling. …
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This paper examines the role of structural indicators in the process of multilateral surveillance of structural policies. An analytical framework is suggested that is based on welfare economics and which focuses on efficiency considerations. Potential indicators are examined for six areas --...
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This paper examines the question of whether the scope of universal service should be widened to include broadband. A … common concern in OECD countries is that some groups without access to highspeed broadband networks, such as those residing … in rural and sparsely populated remote areas, will be unable to access the benefits expected of broadband access, from on …
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The development of broadband access to the Internet is gaining increasing prominence. This is occurring in fields that … in the latter half of the 1990s, and softened the current cyclical downturn, then the next steps toward broadband access …
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This report updates developments in terms of the roll out of broadband access in OECD countries. It does not aim to … to highlight developments in relation to the leading platforms. The focus of the analysis is on how fast broadband access …
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Significant changes in the structure of the telecommunication market have occurred since the introduction of competition in the sector. Now, companies are competing in all market segments and more importantly, competition is developing between companies, which use different network platforms...
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Governments often regulate prices for public utilities. As telecommunication services markets have been opened to competition, new ways had to be found to regulate prices of the former monopoly carriers.
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Since the end of the 1980s, the increasing globalisation of corporate activities (in both the manufacturing and service sectors) in OECD Member countries has spilled over into the telecommunication sector, thus creating fundamental changes in the paradigm of international telecommunication...
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