Nardotto, Mattia; Valletti, Tommaso; Verboven, Frank - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2014
We consider the impact of a regulatory process forcing an incumbent telecom operator to make its local broadband … and offer Internet services directly to customers. Employing a very detailed dataset covering the whole of the UK, we find … effect on broadband penetration in the early years, and no longer in the recent years as the market reached maturity. In …