effect of infrastructure-based competition between xDSL broadband and cable-TV broadband subscriptions on investments. We use … inputs to the policy debate on broadband promotion. …

different decisions with regard to broadband, by adopting an approach of neo-institutional economics and a model based on game … operators in each mode makes different decisions on broadband businesses affected by the respective natures of owner … found to be exactly the opposite: (no unbundle regulation, no additional broadband investments, no entrance) for the …

affected negatively. In our paper we concentrate on the impact of local loop unbundling and Bitstream access on broadband …For more than a decade the unbundling of telecommunications networks has been used as a regulatory means to stifle … network investment incentives are widely shown in the theoretical literature. Therefore broadband penetration might also be …

affected negatively. In our paper we concentrate on the impact of local loop unbundling and Bitstream access on broadband …For more than a decade the unbundling of telecommunications networks has been used as a regulatory means to stifle … network investment incentives are widely shown in the theoretical literature. Therefore broadband penetration might also be …

We consider the impact of a regulatory process forcing an incumbent telecom operator to make its local broadband … network available to other companies (local loop unbundling, or LLU). Entrants are then able to upgrade their individual lines … that, over the course of time, many entrants have begun to take advantage of unbundling. LLU entry only had a positive …