effect of infrastructure-based competition between xDSL broadband and cable-TV broadband subscriptions on investments. We use … inputs to the policy debate on broadband promotion. …

ratios of three broadband technologies, 30 countries are categorized into types, namely CATV (BB), DSL and FTTx. Then, the …Deployment of broadband, particularly, FTTx, is now one of major policy objectives in many countries, including Japan …, Korea, and the U.S., for example. The U.S. announced a National Broadband Plan which aimed at providing 100 million …

Deployment of broadband for everyone has become a major policy objective in many countries, including Japan and the U ….S. Recently, the U.S. announced a National Broadband Plan which is aimed at providing 100 million households with access to 100 … Mbps broadband services by 2020. The purpose of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis to identify factors …

This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …

competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up …Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants … access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase …

loss might be out- weighed by the inefficient duplication of an existing infrastructure. Using data from broadband internet … between DSL and cable TV had a significant and positive impact on the broadband penetration. Comparing the additional social …Competition between parallel infrastructures incorporates opposing welfare effects. The gain from reduced deadweight …

The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves … dynamics of fixed broadband markets in two neighboring regions: Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, and the Netherlands … between the incumbent, operating DSL on the former telephone network, and one or more cable operators, using the DOCSIS …

good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass …

impact between baseline telecommunications services’ and the internet’ impact. For a 10% increase in RIAs usage GDP for the … offer an increasingly large part of a ‘full internet experience’. With this in mind, our analysis places their economic … strive for framework conditions that enable or even better facilitate innovation as well as dynamic competition. Ultimately …

authority, regulatory mandate, regulatory regime, and competition model, is significantly below what is considered international …