This paper discusses the development of local loop unbundling in telecommunications markets throughout the European … paper also explores the challenges for policy and regulation that arise because of unbundling and recent, related …

This paper discusses the development of local loop unbundling in telecommunications markets throughout the European … paper also explores the challenges for policy and regulation that arise because of unbundling and recent, related …

on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as … opposed to radical investment. In this context, we identify three possible options for regulation in the near future: 1 …

Regulation of the cable television industry was marked by remarkable periods of deregulation, re-regulation, and re … effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …

We analyse the impact of regulation, industrial policy and jurisdictional allocation on broadband deployment using a … countries for the period 1999–2006, we examine whether centralization promotes new telecommunications markets, in particular the …

: collusive and social welfaremaximising reciprocity, uniform termination charge, asymmetric regulation, and direct calling price … and asymmetric regulation, it is shown in this paper that the regulator can improve social welfare, without too much … regulation of calling prices may be a welfare-improving alternative over regulation of termination charges. …