This paper reviews comparative approaches to key issues in economic regulation in four countries of the Southern … innovation in telecommunications services. In this paper, regulatory models in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are … evaluated with a focus on regulation of spectrum assignment, infrastructure sharing, call termination rates, and number …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …

In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing …

market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications ….C. Circuit recognized over twenty years ago: Complex regulation must still be credible regulation and any failure by the FCC to …

This paper analyses interconnection in telecommunications markets in the Southern African Development Community (SADC … regional experience in terms of the cross-country integration of telecommunications markets through international calls and … roaming services. The investigation and analysis find that there are currently low levels of alignment in regulation between …

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 …

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …