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One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand internationally. From the 1990s, a number of these firms … explores how the regulatory framework within which telecommunications incumbents evolved over the long-term helped shape their …
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across populations, and that specifically targeted “bottom-up” regulation from the demand-side could usefully address these …
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This paper discusses aspects of recent policy towards mobile telephony in the U.K., including (i) the level of retail charges for calls from fixed to mobile networks, (ii) the level of call termination charges on mobile networks, and (iii) the level of connection subsidies offered by mobile...
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This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that 1) strong regulatory substance … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; 2) competition and privatization reduces …
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This paper provides an overview of the policy implications of technological developments, and how these technologies can accommodate an increased level of market competition. It is based on the work carried out in the SPORT VIEWS (Spectrum Policies and Radio Technologies Viable In Emerging...
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The introduction of sector-specific regulation in the EU has fostered competition and innovation in the … telecommunications industry. However, the liberalisation process still has a long way to go. The debate on the new scenario facing …
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This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
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The conventional wisdom that mobile operators are able to act as monopolists in pricing call termination on their networks has recently been challenged by Hutchison 3G’s entry into European mobile markets. The European Commission’s electronic communications regime allows national regulatory...
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This paper discusses the development of local loop unbundling in telecommunications markets throughout the European … paper also explores the challenges for policy and regulation that arise because of unbundling and recent, related …
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This article discusses changes in the U.S. telecommunications market over the last decade and argues that increasing … regulation of incumbent local telephone carriers. The article suggests that the time is right to shift from a regime of a priori …
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