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 … households with access to 100 Mbps broadband services by 2020. The purpose of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis to …

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 …

unbundling regulations on new optical-fiber lines. I find that unbundling regulation prevents new providers from building optical … particular, when a new technology is introduced, unbundling regulation has an oligopolization effect on the regulated firms. This … finding in the Japanese telecommunications industry suggests that unbundling regulation during periods of new technology …

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. …

- und technologieneutral - eine Mindestversorgung mit Breitbandkommunikation neu festgeschrieben und regelmäßig den …

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel … diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a … 10 percentage-point increase in broadband penetration raises annual per-capita growth by 0.9-1.5 percentage points …

Broadband infrastructure facilitates the generation and distribution of decentralised information and ideas in a … knowledge economy comprising of markets that rely on information as an input. This paper analyses the effect of broadband … of 31 OECD countries over a period from 1998 to 2010. The results suggest that broadband penetration has had a positive …