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Investments in Next Generation Access Infrastructures Under Regulatory Uncertainty

Tselekounis, Markos; Varoutas, Dimitris - 2016

This article studies the impact of regulatory uncertainty on an incumbent’s incentives to undertake the socially optimal investments in NGA networks. Thus, a regulatory non-commitment setting in which the regulator sets the access price after the deployment of the NGA network is used. In...

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Drivers of fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure adoption and quality : prepared for presentation at the 20th ITS Biennial Conference Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 30-December 3, 2014

Tsai, Hsin-yi Sandy (contributor); … - International Telecommunications Society - 2014 - Rev. Draft 2.0, Nov. 6, 2014

or open access provision do have a positive contribution in markets with limited competition. However, the findings also …

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Network Neutrality and its Potential Impact on Next Generation Networks

Frieden, Rob - 2013

This paper will examine the network neutrality debate with an eye toward assessing how the Internet will evolve as a major platform for content access and distribution. The paper accepts as necessary and proper many types of price and quality of service discrimination, but also identifies other...

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A Primer on Network Neutrality

Frieden, Robert - 2013

This paper will provide a straightforward explanation of what constitutes network neutrality and why a debate has arisen about whether governments need to establish rules mandating nondiscrimination. The paper will identify what types of price and quality of service discrimination represent...

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Do Municipal Broadband Networks Foster Network Competition? : Case Study Evidence from the Netherlands

Sadowski, Bert M.; de Pender, Marcel - 2014

competition in broadband markets. In this context, the paper examines the characteristics of residential users of a municipal … broadband network in the Netherlands. It investigates the extent to which competition-related factors and consumer …

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Internet districts in Italy : is proximity an antidote against weak broadband competition?

D'Ignazio, Allessio; Giovannetti, Emanuele - In: Modern economy 2 (2011) 3, pp. 403-411

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Economic Findings Concerning the State of Competition for Wired Broadband Provision to U.S. Households and Edge Providers

Evans, David S. - 2017

The Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, in the course of considering mergers and acquisitions as well as other policy matters, have conducted detailed investigations of the wired broadband business, and the intertwined business of providing linear programming....

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Role of Access Charges in the Migration from Copper to FTTH

Jeanjean, François - 2012

-platform competition in a fully covered broadband access market (copper-copper, copper-FTTH and TTH-FTTH competitions). The model is purely … network technologies. In FTTH-infrastructure-based competition, only one of the two operators has incentives to invest in FTTH …

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Role of Access Charges in the Migration from Copper to FTTH

Jeanjean, François - 2011

-platform competition in an always covered broadband access market (Copper-Copper, Copper-FTTH and FTTH-FTTH competitions). The model is …-infrastructure-based competition, investment incentives tend to increase with the copper access charge, while in FTTH-service-based competition, FTTH …-infrastructure-based and FTTH-service-based competition in terms of nationwide FTTH coverage and social welfare indicates that FTTH …

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Procompetitive infrastructure sector regulation and diffusion of innovation : the case of broadband networks

Gruber, Harald; Koutroumpis, Pantelis - 2011

The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of … competition is generally not leading to acceleration in broadband diffusion. Second, with respect to intra-platform competition …, this has been analyzed at two different levels: full unbundling and retail competition. In the first case the competitor is …

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