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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 …
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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 … conjunctionwith the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in thetelecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …
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We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linearprices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the caseof a fixed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes theresults of Gans and...
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, legal and economic framework of the fixed-line telecommunications industry, this book investigates whether bundling is …
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We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellularfirms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, whenincumbents faced increased competition from personal communicationsservices (PCS) firms. Entry...
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There is growing sentiment that rate rebalancing to eliminate crosssubsidies between local business and local residential telephone marketsis necessary to induce efficient entry in the residential market. If theelasticity of supply with respect to the relative prices for businessand residential...
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We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges asin the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determinethe access price that network i pays to network j as a linear functionof the...
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)regulate telecommunications provision. …
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This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might … that multiple equilibria may exist which means non-market forces such as regulation and entry strategy might determine the …
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Privatisation of telecommunications across the globe over the 1980s and 1990s has thrown up various regulatory problems … operate on a profit-maximising basis without being subject to regulation. Welfare is increased by subsidising additional …
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