being made. In this Article, we examine the economic principles that should govern competition and regulatory policies … Canadian cable television industry should be protected from competition while it upgrades its network to provide interactive …

internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband … internet should be subsidized. Using an approach similar to Valletti et al. (2002), the paper highlights the importance of … population density for whether firms invest to provide internet access. The analysis reveals a trade-off between coverage and …

regulation in EU countries like Germany, with its focus on cost-oriented access and service-based competition, is likely to have … Technik erfordert allerdings relativ hohe Investitionen. Die EU und mit ihr auch Deutschland sowie die Schweiz verfolgen …The transition from copper-based internet access to ultra-fast broadband networks requires large investments. However …

heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …

generating facilities-based competition in Germany is the cable-broadcasting network. The current developments in the cable …This paper gives a survey of the current state of competition in the German Broadband access market. Existing … regulations and their impact on the deployment of high-speed Internet access are evaluated. It is argued that facilities …

performance of local demand from a detailed database of broadband internet subscribers, discriminated by the main attributes of an … internet subscription contract as location, supplier, monthly-fee, download- and upload-speed features. From these results, we … are able to identify the effect of quality regulation on the behavior of internet providers in a differentiated product …

The Federal Communications Commission is coming under intense political pressure to reclassify broadband Internet … create, and then tariff, a termination service for Internet content under Section 203 of the Communications Act. Because a … termination services. Second, as competition is the basis for Section 10 forbearance, the Commission is precluded from setting …

heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …