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the size of the Chinese market and the strong hold of the government on the telecommunications industry, it is found that …
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A panel of province by year data for China from 1998 to 2007 is used to estimate own- and cross-price elasticities for fixed and mobile telephone service. Identification is achieved through the use of measures of the level of competition and privatization of the industry. Moreover, using...
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Sri Lanka's telecommunications industry was profoundly transformed during the 1990s and became one of the most open and …'s telecommunications industry, the regulatory policy framework, and pertinent competition policy issues in the sector, with particular …
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Alfred E. Kahn was an observer and practitioner of telecommunications regulation as technology changed the industry …
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The liberalization of telecommunications is largely based on the premise that increasing competition will encourage … telecommunications operators in OECD countries between 1994 and 2008, and we conclude that greater competitive pressure fosters …
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This paper examines the relationship between changes in telecommunications provider competition on international long …
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Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive … telecommunications sector. We pay particular attention to how the effects of interest groups on policies vary from more democratic to …
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Mobile telecommunications operators routinely charge higher prices for off-net than on-net calls. Previous research … effects using data on tariff setting in the German market for mobile telecommunications from 2004 to 2009. We find that large …
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This paper analyses the determinants of broadband Internet access prices in a group of 15 EU countries between 2008 and 2011. Using a rich panel dataset of broadband plans, we show the positive effect of downstream speed on prices, and report that cable and fibre-to-the-home technologies are...
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