Using an efficiency-based framework, this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector … under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to …-specific regulation, however, transfers to consumers appear to have reduced, transaction costs have increased and delays are being …

the citizens of its member states. The Roaming Regulation that has reduced the mobile communications costs while … case of telecommunications, several initiatives of the European Commission and of national regulatory authorities to falls …

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 …

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 …

I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or … integrity of the telecommunications networks in Canada. Third, the design of non predatory pricing rules (price floors) through … full cost sharing capable of fostering the emergence of a more competitive telecommunications industry, even if such non …

wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …

regulatory imperatives in the Chinese telecommunications industry, currently there is no consistent pattern offered in the … forms of informal forces, which may translate into different implications for competition regulation. Based on extensive … China's SOE system in the telecommunications sector; and (3) original first attempt in identifying different roles of …

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 …