Telecommunications and cable industries, thetelecom meltdown of 2000-2003, and issues that arose from the triennialreview by the FCC of …This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … telephony (VOIP). We also examine the impact of the 1996Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in …

This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might … occur when cable TV providers compete with local exchange carriers. Each firm has a fixed capacity that it can use to offer … that multiple equilibria may exist which means non-market forces such as regulation and entry strategy might determine the …

Independent television production is recognised for its capacity to generate new kinds of program content, as well as … deliver innovation in formats. Globally, the television industry is entering into the post-broadcasting era where audiences …. Independent television production has become an important element in the reform of broadcasting in China in the past decade. The …

competition in two-part tariffs, we consider a class of accesspricing rules, similar to the optimal one under competition in …

/pricing competition in oligopoly markets, and is concerned with descriptive perspectives to invoke game-theoretic modeling, emphasizing … the effect of oligopolistic competition on investment activities but explicitly model practical operational environments … the effect of imperfect competition. There is an extensive literature of economics on a subject of capacity investment in …

change in the Spanish regulation that took place in 2013 fostering competition in the retail sector. One potential … competition for most of the incumbent stations …

privatization stimulated competition in fixed line telecommunications and helped increasing efficiency. Prices in fixed line …. During the last decade telecommunications regulators successfully opened the markets and helped fostering competition … result of increasing competitive pressure? These are important topics for future telecommunications regulation and this …

of the market and the introduction of regulation. A model was developed which integrates all the major forces and effects … model was verified on two telecommunications companies from Germany and Romania and shows inter alia that the effects “Laws …

both academia and industry to present their insights on the digital convergence phenomenon in the telecommunications … industry. The contributions cover a great deal of the relevant topics in communications regulation, such as technological and … network neutrality, distribution of the digital dividend, and incentives for investment and innovation. …

We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks … a reduction of the termination charge below costhas two opposing effects: it softens competition and it helps … termination chargebelow cost, either to soften competition or to internalize the networkeffect. The regulator will favor …