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 …

effect of infrastructure-based competition between xDSL broadband and cable-TV broadband subscriptions on investments. We use …

Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not … second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it comes to gigabit-capable connections—particularly in sparsely … and two percent, pure fiber-optic connections only play a minor role. In international comparison, Germany’s need to get …

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

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 …