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that estimate the costs of a hypothetical carrier employing the most efficient telecommunications technology currently … telecommunications network. When there is uncertainty about how these prices will change over the period for which costs and prices are … for the increased price of copper. A global trend may be emerging among telecommunications regulators to ignore the input …
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In September 2016, the European Commission (EC) published its proposal for a directive establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) - with one key aim being the provision of sufficient incentives for infrastructure investments into high-speed communication networks. Based on a...
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In this paper we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper) and fiber networks shapes the incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous...
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This paper studies the incentives of an unregulated monopolist to undertake the socially optimal investment in NGA networks when it takes into account the fact that the NGA deployment is a two-dimensional investment decision concerning both the quality (or equivalently, technology) and the...
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In 2000, there were as many countries served by a single mobile network as by network competition. Today, only 30 countries, representing less than 3% of the world’s population, are served by a single network. There has been considerable discussion about the optimal number of network operators...
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competition? Unbundling of copper cables has been the basis for infrastructure based competition in telecommunications networks …
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