unbundling regulations on new optical-fiber lines. I find that unbundling regulation prevents new providers from building optical … particular, when a new technology is introduced, unbundling regulation has an oligopolization effect on the regulated firms. This … finding in the Japanese telecommunications industry suggests that unbundling regulation during periods of new technology …

assessment of how would have NGA coverage looked like if the recently approved regulation for FTTH unbundling would have come …-To-The-Home (FTTH) networks in Spain in a retrospective way. First, we assess the impact of former wholesale broadband markets …' regulation on FTTH investment and on the market structure evolution. Further on, based on coverage data from 2013, we provide an …

For more than a decade the unbundling of telecommunications networks has been used as a regulatory means to stifle … affected negatively. In our paper we concentrate on the impact of local loop unbundling and Bitstream access on broadband … penetration. Using a panel of European countries for a time period of 17 years, we find that the effect of unbundling on …

For more than a decade the unbundling of telecommunications networks has been used as a regulatory means to stifle … affected negatively. In our paper we concentrate on the impact of local loop unbundling and Bitstream access on broadband … penetration. Using a panel of European countries for a time period of 17 years, we find that the effect of unbundling on …

unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price …

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our … supply. Overall, we have two main conclusions. First, the major step in the unbundling process is from "lean legal unbundling …" to "fat legal unbundling"; additional steps beyond that are small, both in benefits and in costs. Second, the benefits of …

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be … coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …