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The Price of Copper and the Transition to Fibre
CAVE, Martin; FOURNIER, Antoine; SHUTOVA, Natalia - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 85, pp. 147-168
The question of how to price access to the copper network during the period of transition to fibre has attracted much …
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Ex-ante margin squeeze tests in the telecommunications industry: What is a reasonably efficient operator? (Revised: September 6, 2012)
Gaudin, Germain; Saavedra Valenzuela, Claudia - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
In this paper, we study the adjustments made by National Regulatory Authorities to simple margin squeeze tests, in order to model a reasonably efficient operator. More precisely, by inspecting the possible differences between an entrant and an incumbent that would cause a market disadvantage for...
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Ex-ante margin squeeze tests in the telecommunications industry: What is a reasonably efficient operator?
Gaudin, Germain; Saavedra Valenzuela, Claudia - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
In this paper, we study the adjustments that National Regulatory Authorities make to simple margin squeeze tests, when using them ex-ante. More precisely, by inspecting the possible differences between an entrant and the incumbent that would cause a market disadvantage for the former, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956670
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Coexistence of copper and fiber unbundling: Access charges and investment incentives
Tselekounis, Markos; Orfanou, Georgia; Varoutas, Dimitris - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
the cost of providing the access to the copper access network and the fiber access charge at the level that maximizes the … EC Recommendation (2013/466/EU) for setting the copper and fiber access charges in order to promote competition and …
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Access Pricing: A Comparison Between Full Deregulation and Two Alternative Instruments of Access Price Regulation, Cost-Based and Retail-Minus
Sarmento, Paula; Brandão, António - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
In this paper we compare two instruments of access price regulation, cost-based and retail-minus, with the full deregulation hypothesis. We consider an upstream monopolist firm that sells a vital input to an independent firm and to a subsidiary firm in the downstream market. We conclude that the...
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Incentives to invest and to give access to non-regulated new technologies
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - In: Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012) 3, pp. 197-211
We analyze the incentives of a vertically integrated firm, which is a regulated monopolist in the wholesale market and competes with an entrant in the retail market, to invest and to give access to a new wholesale technology. The new technology represents a non-drastic innovation that produces...
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Access Regulation, Entry and the Investment Ladder in Telecommunications
Manenti, Fabio; Sciala', Antonio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2010
This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent and an entrant firm in telecommunications. The entrant … entry the entrant needs access to the incumbent network. Unlike the rival, the incumbent has always the option to upgrade … the existing network to provide advanced services. We study the impact of access regulation on the type of entry and on …
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Asymmetric Broadband Wholesale Regulation
Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
existing access regulation is based on a single essential network. We show that continued asymmetric access regulation of one … network does not control sufficiently for market power and benefits the unregulated network, and that symmetric regulation … if regulatory constraints provide strong first-mover advantages to the unregulated network. …
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The effects of asymmetric regulation on the quality of broadband networks
Kocsis, Viktória - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013
Network operators of competing infrastructures in European electronic communications markets face asymmetric regulation …: incumbent telecommunications firms are required to open their networks for retail broadband competition, while cable companies … to having a lower quality network than cable companies. Therefore, access obligation reduces the incentives of telecom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981581
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Access regulation and geographic deployment of a new generation infrastructure
Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - technique) - and the new FTTH - Fibre To The Home - one). Competition is …
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