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For many years, electronic communications has been one of the most important areas of policy intervention for the European Union. Liberalisation and privatisation of the telecommunications industry were very important topics of the policy debate in the two decades from 1990 to 2010. In these...
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Recent studies provide clear evidence that the quality of telecommunications infrastructure has strong impacts on economic growth. Especially in Germany there is a controversial debate how to stimulate telecommunications investment to foster the introduction of Next Generation Networks. To find...
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(cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive impact on …
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The liberalization and regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany is called, despite some adversity as a great … of the regulation was for almost one and a half decades the non-discriminatory access to the copper-based infrastructure … of the incumbent. Due to technical progress, the focus of regulation will continue to move to other areas, such as, for …
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This paper contributes to the policy debate about the optimal termination charge when penetration rates are explicitly taken into account. Although lowering termination charges towards cost leads to more efficient usage, its impact on consumer surplus is ambiguous since it induces an increase in...
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In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute termination charge, we find that a reduction of the...
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We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...
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several case studies and concludes that sometimes the EU intervention is not always justified (such as regulation of mobile … regulation, international roaming, spectrum). The paper calls for a more open debate of the concept and the means to achieve the … extreme caution, especially in the context of the deployment of NGA, given the uncertainty on the best form of regulation. …
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This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …
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The EU regulatory framework for e-communications was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in 2002, and became applicable from 2003. It has three primary objectives: (1) to promote competition; (2) to develop the single market; and (3) to promote citizens' rights. The European...
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