competition in an abstract, sterile way. To illustrate the dangers of using such an abstract approach to the key issue of ILEC … market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications … services as a case study, wherein the Commission abandoned its own general framework for competition analysis in favor of using …

This article challenges the conventional wisdom that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is to blame for the lack of … competition in local telephony, and that somehow the federal courts are complicit in this failure. It begins by highlighting the … continued importance of local wireline infrastructure and how little competition exists. Moving to the 1996 Act's network …

opportunity costs. This paper provides empirical evidence in support of the importance of telecommunications sector reform to … put forward in this study establishes that privatization of incumbent telecommunications operators supports the … introduction of competition and improved quality of regulations, which together condition the speed of technology migration, the …

Our paper seeks to define the term effective competition as used in Mexico’s telecommunications sector and implemented … with substantial market power in telecommunications markets as well as to consider the relationship between the static and … dynamic components of efficiency and effective competition. We use the European experience as a benchmark for the …

When it comes to the analysis of the intrinsic mechanism of market behaviors and hence competition development and … 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 …

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 … incurred in the deployment of new applications and technologies relative to the competition law regime as participants engage …

telecommunications sector. However, the importance of competition has become more apparent with each new development in the sector. Given …Historically South Africa has favoured incumbents/national champions over rivalry (competition) in the … the changes in this dynamic sector it is important to evaluate progress on regulating for competition and the obstacles to …