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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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sophisticated wireless telecommunications networks into commodity-based networks. In support of this proposal, wireless network … substantial risks that Carterfone-type regulation would commoditize wireless network services in a way that could substantially …
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This Policy Paper demonstrates that policies that hinder a new entrant's ability to sell video programming, such as forcing entrants to obtain a local cable franchise agreement, will strongly diminish that entrant's incentive to deploy fiber to low-income households. Using publicly-available...
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lower calls prices. This was done by introducing wholesale regulation and promoting service based competition. Some years … retail minus or complete deregulation. -- access regulation ; vertical integration ; foreclosure ; price squeeze … ; telecommunications ; fixed networks …
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minus and deregulation as potential alternatives. -- access regulation ; foreclosure ; margin squeeze ; telecommunications …This paper looks at the effects of different forms of wholesale and retail regulation on retail competition in fixed … increases. We argue that a wholesale price regulation at average costs is not optimal in such a situation and discuss retail …
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over decades. One party wants telecommunications “devolved” to Northern Ireland, other would leave it at the United Kingdom …. There is network governance economic regulation at the global, EU, ministerial and regulator levels, though generally … devolved legislatures in telecommunications governance, which is complex and lies partially beyond democratic oversight and …
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We analyze optimal pricing policies in local telecommunications subject to bypass for the access of long …
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This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …
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We analyse network competition in a market with international calls. National regulatory agencies (NRAs) have incentives to set regulated termination rates above marginal cost to extract rent from international call termination. International network ownership and deregulation are alternatives...
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are able to identify the effect of quality regulation on the behavior of internet providers in a differentiated product … regulation is a more intense product differentiation that contributes to demand expansion and therefore to improve broadband …
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