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being made. In this Article, we examine the economic principles that should govern competition and regulatory policies … Canadian cable television industry should be protected from competition while it upgrades its network to provide interactive …
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-card networks had little incentive to lower merchant fees, which allegedly restricted interbrand competition among those networks … power and that its NDPs had an actual adverse effect on competition as a whole. In a two-sided market, network externalities … examine the effects that the challenged conduct has on market competition. Examining only one side of the market would …
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After nearly six years of telecommunications deregulation in the United States, centering on the Telecommunications Act of 1996, there is little to which regulatory officials in charge of such deregulation can point in terms of benefits in the form of lower prices or innovative services. It is...
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competition and drawing implications for public policy. The report was commissioned by The Brussels Round Table, a forum for …-based competition', where providers are using all (or some of) their own infrastructure, and 'access-based competition', where providers …-based competition is desirable in telecommunications and has an important role in delivering innovations such as broadband. However …
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This paper argues that a cable operator with sufficient market power in the downstream multi-channel video programming distribution (MVPD) market can deny access to unaffiliated programmers, resulting in an upstream programming rival's exit or impaired dynamic efficiency. Further, market...
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Competition authorities in foreign jurisdictions have recently adopted or are considering guidelines on applying … competition law to intellectual property rights (IPR). A common concern that certain exercises of IPR can restrict competition … underlies IPR provisions that would enable competition authorities to compel holders of IPR to license their IP at regulated …
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This paper argues that a cable operator with sufficient market power in the downstream multi-channel video programming distribution (MVPD) market can deny access to unaffiliated programmers, resulting in an upstream programming rival's exit or impaired dynamic efficiency. Further, market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225101
familiar. Such regulation leads not to deregulation, but to an enduring managed competition far more complex to administer than …
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In 2005, Ofcom, then telecommunications regulator in the United Kingdom, implemented functional separation of British Telecom plc (BT), separating its wholesale and retail services. BT established a division within the company, Openreach, to provide equal access to its local access network and...
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