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Network Neutrality and Industry Structure
Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2006
One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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The connectivity frontier
Prats, Joan; Páez, Juan Andrés - 2018
The importance of connectivity is growing across the world as the need for access to information and communication technologies is becoming more important for economic development. This paper presents the concept of the connectivity frontier as the expected achievable level of commercially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882497
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Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: A two-sided market analysis
Köksal, Emin - 2010
In this paper, we examine welfare implications of switching from a neutrality regime to a network management regime. While in the former a network provider or an integrated ISP should transmit data with a-bit-is-a-bit principle, in the latter it is allowed to differentiate its connection quality...
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Complex Network Phenomena in Telecommunication Systems
Schintler, Laura A.; Gorman, Sean P.; Reggiani, Aura; … - 2004
. The present paper will examine and compare properties of telecommunications networks for both the United States and Europe …
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Understanding why universal service obligations may be unnecessary: The private development of local internet access markets
Downes, Tom; Greenstein, Shane M - 2006
This study analyzes the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access. The geographic spread of ISPs is a key consideration in U.S. policy for universal access. We examine the Fall of 1998, a time of minimal government subsidy, when...
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The impact of Broadband quality standards on Internet services market structure in Colombia
Hidalgo, Julian; Oviedo, Juan D. - 2014
performance of local demand from a detailed database of broadband internet subscribers, discriminated by the main attributes of an … regulation is a more intense product differentiation that contributes to demand expansion and therefore to improve broadband …
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The Economic Impacts of Telecommunications Networks and Broadband Internet : A Survey
Bertschek, Irene - 2016
We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks …
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The Internet and 'Telecommunications Services,' Access Charges, Universal Service Mechanisms and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System
Weinberg, Jonathan - 2015
? In particular, to what extent should (or can) regulators impose existing telecommunications regulation, including the … snarl of cross-subsidies that dominates the telephone system, on IP networks?At the heart of existing telecommunications … regulation is the distinction between quot;telecommunications service,quot; whose providers are subject to FCC common …
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