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Marsden explains for a general policy audience what the regulatory and governance problems and potential solutions are for the issue referred to as ‘network neutrality’, unpacking its ‘lite’ and ‘heavy’ elements. Eschewing technical, economic or legalistic explanations which he has...
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The purpose of this paper is to review the effectiveness of the various initiatives taken to regulate international mobile roaming over the last decade. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is an analysis of the policies and the measures and their effects on prices and industry dynamics....
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The European Union adopted a Roaming Regulation (717/2007) in 2007, then extended its duration and widened its scope … (544/2009) in 2009. In 2006, the European Commission held two consultations on a possible regulation. It made a formal … Regulation. It concluded it required to be extended until 2012. It also proposed adding retail and wholesale price caps on SMS …
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International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be provide customers with roaming, then trying to limit the increasing prices, that were seemingly immune to the effects of competition. The European Commission, in trying to...
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We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation. …
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The European Court of Justice upheld the Roaming Regulation (717 2007), rejecting the challenge by the four largest … of proportionality and subsidiarity. The European Commission’s interim report on the second Roaming Regulation (544 2009 …
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wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …
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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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approach to Internet regulation in the broader public interest. We argue for ‘prosumer law' and give an example of our proposed … multi-stakeholder fora as the OECD. Finally, we argue for holistic regulation of the Internet, taking a trans … multistakeholder environment for Internet governance and regulation, in which user groups lobbied along with business and governments …
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