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 …

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 …

on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as … opposed to radical investment. In this context, we identify three possible options for regulation in the near future: 1 …

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 …

across populations, and that specifically targeted “bottom-up” regulation from the demand-side could usefully address these …

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 …