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 …

Major changes in technology and in regulation led to the proliferation of and willingness to pay for new communication … services The changes in technology enabled the changes in regulation, both through the ability to increase supply and quality …, but because technological change opened the marketplace to new interest groups influencing regulators and regulation. At …

, electricity and telecommunications, in two large countries, Spain and the United Kingdom. In telecommunications, but to a much …

better, policy-makers are turning their attention to better understanding the consumer. Previously, regulation was usually …. Despite this ambitious reform programme, there are signs that regulation is not always working. The Commission itself has … - energy, gas, telecommunications and transportation. Work is ongoing to identify the causes of this “malfunctioning” and it is …

We analyze if two-part access tariffs solve the dynamic consistency problem of the regulation of Next Generation … investment cost is low, the regulator can induce investment when he cannot commit to a policy. Second, we show that in this case … show that if the regulator can commit to a policy, a regulatory moratorium may emerge as socially optimal. …

We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next …

Regulation of the cable television industry was marked by remarkable periods of deregulation, re-regulation, and re … effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …

Augmenting consumer welfare was a key justification behind the reform of utilities from the 1980s. But, three decades … later, evidence is mounting that consumer satisfaction with household utilities is quite uneven. Moreover, governments … may be less satisfied than those from other backgrounds. To attend to this, instances of demand-side regulation have been …

specifically, on the telecommunications industry and its regulation. …

the telecommunications sector. In spite of deregulation and privatization policies in the recent past, there are threats … overlapping regulatory agencies, are policy failures to procure competition. The path from State-operation to "managed competition …, which will make costly future, more ambitious, deregulation efforts. The paper focus on interconnection policy between the …