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Single eComms Market? No Such Thing…
PELKMANS, Jacques; RENDA, Andrea - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2011) 82, pp. 21-42
Notwithstanding the undeniable success of telecoms liberalisation in terms of price reduction, new services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862539
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Theoretical Dilemmas of the Natural Monopolistic Position of Network Based Public Utilities
Horváth, Ágnes Kádár - In: Theory Methodology Practice (TMP) 7 (2011), pp. 21-28
competition evolving as a consequence of the opening of the market. The idea of privatisation was closely linked to liberalisation …The change in the market of public utilities – the liberalisation of markets – is a much debated and highly significant … liberalisation of the market of public utilities has become stronger in certain professional circles, emphasising the benefits of the …
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Modelling the impact of Next Generation Access (NGA) on voice termination cost
Jay, Stephan; Plueckebaum, Thomas; Ilic, Dragan - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010
Termination of a telephone call can only be realized by the network operator of the receiving party. For this reason, the markets for fixed and mobile call termination are regulated ex-ante including price control. To determine the costs of call termination the current regulatory regime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295143
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Financial requirements for nationwide fibre access coverage
Jay, Stephan; Plueckebaum, Thomas - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
It is common knowledge that Next Generation Access (NGA) networks require significant investments and that for many regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. Taking note of the broadband strategies formulated by European governments the deployment cost is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372271
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Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization: The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005
Gronau, Reuben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
An important part of the literature on regulatory economics is based on the US experience, where a well-established regulator faces a privately owned monopoly. It is sometimes forgotten that this model does not apply in many places where a newly established regulator faces a government owned, or...
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Wholesale Pricing, NGA Take-Up and Competition
HOERNIG, Steffen; JAY, Stephan; NEU, Werner; NEUMANN, … - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 86, pp. 153-174
Our market modelling approach aims at practically determining wholesale pricing policies for the switch from copper to fibre access networks. It asks which market equilibria for incumbents and entrants result from different combinations of copper and fibre wholesale access charges. We first...
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The Cost of Nationwide Fibre Access in Germany
JAY, Stephan; NEUMANN, Karl-Heinz; PLÜCKEBAUM, Thomas - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 85, pp. 169-188
It is common knowledge that Next Generation Access (NGA) networks require significant investments and that for many regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. In this paper a bottom-up cost modelling approach is applied to determine the investment and cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602870
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Do you pay a fair price for electricity? Consumers’ satisfaction and utility reform in the EU
FIORIO, Carlo Vittorio; FLORIO, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
’ satisfaction and the complete reform package made of privatisation, vertical disintegration and liberalisation. These results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007383
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The Implementation and the Effects of Regulatory Reform: Past Experience and Current Issues
Gönenç, Rauf; Maher, Maria; Nicoletti, Giuseppe - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000
privatisation) in both competitive and non-competitive industries in the past two decades. Turning to network industries, it then …-neutral charges for accessing the fixed networks of incumbents; ii) the pros and cons of structural measures such as privatisation … sectoriels des réformes (privatisation y compris) dans des industries concurrentielles et non compétitives au cours des deux …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045737
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Regulation in Services: OECD Patterns and Economic Implications
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on data recently collected and summarised by the...
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